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Thoughts on Laszlo Krasznahorkai?

>> No.11950895

>>11950838
I read Last Wolf and Hermann. Good examples of eco-fiction if that’s even a thing. Not sold on the run-on sentences. Do his pther books use it better?

>> No.11950941

>>11950895

only read Melancholy of Resistance which i thought was decent enough (though not a fucking “mitteleuropean Moby Dick” by any means), i liked the run ons

>> No.11951365

I've read

Seiobo There Below:

An occasionally brilliant waste of time. Elaborate description of visual beauty gets boring to read.

The Melancholy of Resistance:

Great! But the hammer section and a few other moments lost me. Brilliant ending.

Satantango:

One of my favourite books. Captures the pettiness of societal decline, something I've seen in no other literature. Female characters were a bit flat (not that 90% of /lit/ would care). Ending was probably genius for the socialist-realism dominated context of Hungary at the time but today feels fake-deep.

What should I read next??????

>> No.11952410

A bit annoying really. I read a couple of his travelogues and found the mix of neuroticism with vaguely racist observations (according to a Hungarian friend) to be a bad cocktail, either go full-on with the Woody Allen shit (and get ignored) or go full shitlord mode and consequences be damned, or stop writing.

>> No.11952417

Excellent.

>> No.11952767

>>11951365
War and war is the last major novel you haven't read. It was my favorite along with The Melancholy of Resistance

>> No.11953051

>>11952410
You mean like "Destruction and sorrow beneath the heavens"?
Well, it's not racist, but a bit on the layman side of things, really.
Please tell your Hungarian friend: "Faszokat szopsz!"
t.A compatriot of his

>> No.11953099

>>11952410
how is he racist

>> No.11953422

>>11953051
My friend actually knows Laszlo K. She is also very liberal, like a hippy so I guess she would get that impression. I do not find im racist (not that that's a bad thing, mind). On the other hand, I have lived in China, and know he is seriously holding back - I would have loved to have seen him really rip into the fake "scholar" of traditional Chinese things. Instead he indulges in all sorts of inner monologue neurosis, which I find annoying. He should man up, then he could write better books.

>> No.11953584

Krasznaboi is probably my favourite author I'm getting into at the moment.
I've read Seiobo There Below and found it to be one of the scariest books I've ever read for its implications, as well as one of the most beautiful.
Am reading War&War and Destruction and Sorrow etc. right now, I'm a bit less thrilled by their beginnings but they're still more than wonderful.

>> No.11954247

Bump