I've read the complete Anthony C Yu four volume Journey to the West translation and I don't think there are many, if any, good comparisons in Western literature

I've read the complete Anthony C Yu four volume Journey to the West translation and I don't think there are many, if any, good comparisons in Western literature. There's an overarching story for the Monkey King, Tang Sanzang, and the rest of the gang, contained within the work, but the bulk of the chapters are self-contained episodic stories, with mostly those same characters, and can be read without almost any knowledge of the others. The closest Western example I can think of with a novel-like work similarly containing many disconnected episodic stories is Don Quixote.