What literary series are there? Most series I see (like books in a series, e.g. a trilogy) are genre fiction...

What literary series are there? Most series I see (like books in a series, e.g. a trilogy) are genre fiction, generally fantasy and science fiction.

What are some example of series' in literary fiction?

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Proust
Faust
As good as everything Dostoyevsky

Gargantua and Pantagruel
The Epic Cycle
Inferno, Purgatoria, Paradiso
etc etc

I can't find any record of those three authors having written any series'.

Cheers

Steinbeck had a short one with Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday iirc

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Goethe's Faust - Two parts

Almost every single Dostoyevsky novel were originally serialized.

Ah, it's a matter of semantics then, I meant series where these are distinct individual novels forming a greater series, not novels that were published in seperate serialised parts, if that makes sense.

In search of lost time, then.

Indeed! Thanks for the rec.

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Gormenghast

The Aeneid is hardly part of a trilogy with the other two, it was written in a completely different time and culture, but yeah the first two make a good "duology".

Trollope's Palliser series - there's six I think

It's the spinoff, like NBC's "Joey" (2004) and "Friends" (1994)

Just read the same translator for all three then it would be like a trilogy. I suggest Lombardo.

Most of Dickens was written as series then published as books later.

>being this autistic

You're the first I see recommending Lombardo on Veeky Forums. It's his I enjoyed the most and I think it's best for the first time reader, with Fagles as a close second.

Gunter Grass - Danzig Trilogy
Naguib Mahfouz - The Cairo Trilogy
Elias Canetti - The Memoir Trilogy
Maxim Gorky - Autobiographical trilogy
Javier Marias - Your Face Tomorrow
Elena Ferrante - The Neapolitan Novels
Karl Ove Knausgård - My Struggle
William Kennedy - The Albany Cycle
Cormac McCarthy - The Border Trilogy
Samuel Beckett - Trilogy
John Banville - Cleave trilogy

forgot about Ernesto Sabato's Trilogy

nah

William S Burroughs - Nova Trilogy
Jack Kerouac wished/wanted like 12 of his books to have the same character names and form a massive "legend" but his editors made him change the names

Also Mishima had a quadrilogy

woohoo

dance to the music of time, anthony powell

John Updike - Rabbit series
Scarlet Letter trilogy
Phillip Roth - Zuckerman Bound
Louis Begley - Schmidt trilogy

Man you sound very pretentious for a guy that can't be bothered to Google his things.

henry miller has tropic of cancer/tropic of capricorn

and his nexus series (sexus, plexus, nexus)

ive only read tropic of cancer but it was good