A summary on every Canto

[ネル]

Each Canto is supposed to refer to a story from literature or another art.

Anyone help me here?

Canto I:
Canto II:
Canto III:
Canto IV:
Canto V:
Canto VI:
Canto VII: El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha)
Canto VIII: 紅樓夢 (Dream of the Red Chamber)

My goal would be to read every story. I read Don Quijote already, a couple of years ago, and it was magical.

[darknetroll]

1)Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
2)Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Очень хорошее чтиво
3)Demian
Hermann Hesse
4)날개 Wings
김해경
5)Moby-♥♥♥♥, or The Whale
Herman Melville
6)Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte

[ネル]

Originally posted by darknetroll:

1)Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
2)Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Очень хорошее чтиво
3)Demian
Hermann Hesse
4)날개 Wings
김해경
5)Moby-♥♥♥♥, or The Whale
Herman Melville
6)Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte

Oh that's really good. I read Metamorphosis a long time ago. I will look the rest up.
Thank you!

[Voluntas]

Canto I: Gregor // Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis
Canto II: Rodion // Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment
Canto III: Sinclair // Hermann Hesse - Demian, the Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth
Canto IV: Yi Sang // Yi Sang - The Wings + Crow's Eye View
Canto V: Ishmael // Herman Melville - Moby-♥♥♥♥; or, The Whale
Canto VI: Heathcliff // Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

I also believe that the cantos are following Dante's Inferno chapters as well.

The rest of the sinners:
Ryoshu // Ryunosuke Akutagawa - Hell Screen
Meursault // Albert Camus - The Stranger
Outis // Homer - The Odyssey
Faust // Johann Wolfgang Goethe - Faust, a tragedy in two parts

[DoT]

The Games old enough that asking that question on google or youtube will get you the answer you're looking for.

This is a video you can skim if you want to just look at the references for the characters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI-4nM3vUW4

But the game has many books of reference for a lot of their work. So if you truly want to understand pm you have to read all of the following
-A Clockwork Orange
-A Day in the Life of Gubo the Novelist
-A Midsummer Night’s Dream
-Alice in Wonderland
-Beauty and The Beast
-Carmilla
-Catcher in the Rye
-Crime and Punishment
-Crow’s Eye View
-Das Capital
-Dracula
-Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair’s Youth
-Der Freischütz
-Deutsche Mythologie
-Dingle Dangle Scarecrow
-Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
-Dream of the Red Chamber
-Essay on Wotan
-Erlkönig
-Faust: A Tragedy
-Gone with the Wind
-Hammer of Witches
-Hekhalot Rabbati
-Hell Screen
-Letters from My Windmill
-Letter to my Father
-Little Red Riding Hood
-Man of La Mancha
-Moby ♥♥♥♥
-Murder on the Orient Express
-Orlando Furioso
-Orlando Innamorato
-Paradise Lost
-Peter Pan
-Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
-Sefer Yetzirah
-Selected Poems of Kim Sakkat
-Silent Night, Holy Night
-Sky, Wind and Stars
-Snow White
-Stone Soup
-Swan Lake
-The Adventures of Pinocchio
-The Apocrypha
-The Bible
-The Book of Enoch
-The Boy Who Cried Wolf
-The Camellias
-The Cow
-The Divine Comedy
-The Ego and the ID
-The Golden Bough
-The Iliad
-The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha
-The Library of Babel
-The Little Match Girl
-The Little Mermaid
-The Little Prince
-The Marvelous Land of Oz
-The Metamorphosis
-The Mourning of Primroses
-The Nibelungenlied
-The Odyssey
-The Old Man and The Sea
-The Picture of Dorian Gray
-The Red Shoes
-The Republic
-The Sea and the Butterfly
-The Shack
-The Six Swans
-The Snow Queen
-The Story of Janghwa and Hongryeon
-The Stranger
-The Stars
-The Tale of Princess Bari
-The Tanakh
-The Three Musketeers
-The Wings
-The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
-The Zohar
-Through the Looking Glass
-Town Musicians of Bremen
-Wuthering Heights
-1984

There are still others like "The Jaunt" but I didn't want to intimidate you.

[ネル]

Originally posted by DoT:

The Games old enough that asking that question on google or youtube will get you the answer you're looking for.

This is a video you can skim if you want to just look at the references for the characters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI-4nM3vUW4

But the game has many books of reference for a lot of their work. So if you truly want to understand pm you have to read all of the following
-A Clockwork Orange
-A Day in the Life of Gubo the Novelist
-A Midsummer Night’s Dream
-Alice in Wonderland
-Beauty and The Beast
-Carmilla
-Catcher in the Rye
-Crime and Punishment
-Crow’s Eye View
-Das Capital
-Dracula
-Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair’s Youth
-Der Freischütz
-Deutsche Mythologie
-Dingle Dangle Scarecrow
-Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
-Dream of the Red Chamber
-Essay on Wotan
-Erlkönig
-Faust: A Tragedy
-Gone with the Wind
-Hammer of Witches
-Hekhalot Rabbati
-Hell Screen
-Letters from My Windmill
-Letter to my Father
-Little Red Riding Hood
-Man of La Mancha
-Moby ♥♥♥♥
-Murder on the Orient Express
-Orlando Furioso
-Orlando Innamorato
-Paradise Lost
-Peter Pan
-Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
-Sefer Yetzirah
-Selected Poems of Kim Sakkat
-Silent Night, Holy Night
-Sky, Wind and Stars
-Snow White
-Stone Soup
-Swan Lake
-The Adventures of Pinocchio
-The Apocrypha
-The Bible
-The Book of Enoch
-The Boy Who Cried Wolf
-The Camellias
-The Cow
-The Divine Comedy
-The Ego and the ID
-The Golden Bough
-The Iliad
-The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha
-The Library of Babel
-The Little Match Girl
-The Little Mermaid
-The Little Prince
-The Marvelous Land of Oz
-The Metamorphosis
-The Mourning of Primroses
-The Nibelungenlied
-The Odyssey
-The Old Man and The Sea
-The Picture of Dorian Gray
-The Red Shoes
-The Republic
-The Sea and the Butterfly
-The Shack
-The Six Swans
-The Snow Queen
-The Story of Janghwa and Hongryeon
-The Stranger
-The Stars
-The Tale of Princess Bari
-The Tanakh
-The Three Musketeers
-The Wings
-The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
-The Zohar
-Through the Looking Glass
-Town Musicians of Bremen
-Wuthering Heights
-1984

There are still others like "The Jaunt" but I didn't want to intimidate you.

Holy that's a lot of things to read. Right now I'm really interested in The Wings, since I'm studying korean.

[DoT]

Originally posted by Zero:

Holy that's a lot of things to read. Right now I'm really interested in The Wings, since I'm studying korean.

To be fair a lot of these are simply references with how big of literature nerds the devs are. Such as the Wizard of OZ.

So you can skip a lot of these really, especially the fairy tale ones since they aren't super involved in the game besides being some of the abnormalities point of reference or groups such as the musicians of Bremen.

The main ones to read are the Books in the video. And then if you really want to, you can branch out to some of the other references after.

-I put a typo in the top, it's actually Kubo in the actual story. While gubo in Limbus.

For instance If you were really interested in Gubo then "A Day in the Life of Kubo the Novelist", would be something to pick up. It's not a very amazing book, but it's fascinating when you start making some connections.

Kubo is depicted as a aimless wanderer, which makes the fact that they gave Gubo the Fell bullet Ego Gear a very nice touch. I personally thought that was very clever.

[hellatze]

Originally posted by Zero:

Each Canto is supposed to refer to a story from literature or another art.

Anyone help me here?

Canto I:
Canto II:
Canto III:
Canto IV:
Canto V:
Canto VI:
Canto VII: El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha)
Canto VIII: 紅樓夢 (Dream of the Red Chamber)
My goal would be to read every story. I read Don Quijote already, a couple of years ago, and it was magical.

you dont have to read the story. it doesnt matter to limbus plot

[Minh]

Originally posted by Zero:

Anyone help me here?

Yes.

[ネル]

Originally posted by Mr Blue:

Originally posted by Zero:

Each Canto is supposed to refer to a story from literature or another art.

Anyone help me here?

Canto I:
Canto II:
Canto III:
Canto IV:
Canto V:
Canto VI:
Canto VII: El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha)
Canto VIII: 紅樓夢 (Dream of the Red Chamber)
My goal would be to read every story. I read Don Quijote already, a couple of years ago, and it was magical.

you dont have to read the story. it doesnt matter to limbus plot

I know, but these are clear influences of the developers in PM and I am interested in nourishing myself beyond the game.

[kurisu_kei]

oh, this game was a reason i've read 'don quixote' as well! i also read 'the stranger', 'hell's screen' and 'metamorphosis', planning to keep on reading more books, because it's catchy when the reference is way more deep when others think.

[kurisu_kei]

and yes, 'don quixote' is magical indeed, even though the ending itself is quite stupid, like this infamous story had a boring morale. main char just wanted to live with a dream, and he had success, even though it was more like stage play... still better than being normal and living the most boring life tbh

[ネル]

Originally posted by kṛṣṇa:

oh, this game was a reason i've read 'don quixote' as well! i also read 'the stranger', 'hell's screen' and 'metamorphosis', planning to keep on reading more books, because it's catchy when the reference is way more deep when others think.

what chapter of 'don quixote' you're reading now?

Oh I finished that a while ago, but I'm planning to read it again. I recently bought a Kindle because I'm usually away from home so it's easier for me to read there.
As much as I love the confrontation against the Knight of the White Moon, I gotta say I felt sad for Quijote when his dream vanished... So I'd say my favourite part is the beginning of his journey, when everything was just magical.