Post-modernism and the classics

[halfjack]

So I'm reading Virgil's Aeneid, or more correctly I'm reading the Translator's Note (my favourite part of most classics) to Frederick Ahl's translation, and something struck me about art

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[flipzagging]

The sequel to Don Quixote opens with the knight and his companions reading the reviews of Don Quixote. Cervantes did this in 1615.

Not to mention that the whole work is a self-conscious parody and celebration of the romantic genre.

[halfjack]

Wow for some reason I did not even know there was a sequel. That opener would be at home in anything Stanislaw Lem cared to bring forth 350 years later. Awesome -- thank you!