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Anonymous

10/29/25(Wed)00:12:39 No.24837920

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Anonymous 10/29/25(Wed)00:12:39 No.24837920 Archived

I've noticed that a lot of older books like Don Quixote, 1001 Nights, and the Count of Monte Cristo like to include smaller stories within their main stories. What do you think the purpose of doing this was?

Anonymous
10/29/25(Wed)00:15:22 No.24837928

Anonymous 10/29/25(Wed)00:15:22 No.24837928

>>24837920
The world was in harmony until the prosefags attacked

Anonymous
10/29/25(Wed)01:19:20 No.24838036

Anonymous 10/29/25(Wed)01:19:20 No.24838036

>>24837920
Filler episodes are always the best. It acclimates characters like they are your bros.

Anonymous
10/29/25(Wed)01:44:19 No.24838100

Anonymous 10/29/25(Wed)01:44:19 No.24838100

>>24837920
Mise en abyme
no idea, but I love them

Anonymous
10/29/25(Wed)02:00:51 No.24838130

Anonymous 10/29/25(Wed)02:00:51 No.24838130

>>24837920
A lot of older books from the were actually written piecemeal for magazines or weekly/monthly/annual journal publications and later serialized into books, so they would sometimes go off into weird tangents and/or explore things that were abruptly abandoned because the live journal readership didn't respond well.

Count of Monte Cristo is one such example as it was originally published in installments as a serial in the Journal des Débats

Anonymous
10/29/25(Wed)02:03:09 No.24838137

Anonymous 10/29/25(Wed)02:03:09 No.24838137

>>24837920
entertainment, anon. entertainment.