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>Krasznahorkai is a perplexing figure in today’s literary landscape: he is, in internet parlance, committed to his bit. The Hungarian author cultivates an air of mystery (he “lives in reclusiveness,” according to onebiographical note) and has been known to give cryptic answers in his occasional interviews (“Wherever I happen to disappear, it is neither into silence nor into darkness,” he toldAsymptote Journal). A literary heir to Kafka, Beckett, and Dostoyevsky, for him the existence of God and the nature of infinity are subjects that are not too large. Krasznahorkai is known for long, labyrinthine sentences that painstakingly excavate every fleck of a subject’s consciousness, rolling across multiple pages with precious little white space. In the tradition of Mallarmé, he has said that he always wanted to write one unified book, andWenckheim, reportedly the author’s last, seeks to tie together three previous novels:Satantango,The Melancholy of Resistance, andWar & War, unifying them into one great work. Accordingly,Wenckheimtakes up the ideas of these earlier books and enlarges them: the absurd is more absurd, the incomprehensible more incomprehensible than ever.

Is he really that good?

This is the greatest living author (Pynchon is second).

Shit, forgot an important one.

For those who have read him, post what you love about him... for those who haven't; welcome to the greatest writer of the 20th/21st century.
His books "Satantango" and "Melancholy of Resistance" changed both my writing life and my life in general, not to mention his 4-5 other books, and he has a new one coming out in a month or so that I've already pre-ordered. I haven't fanboyed this hard since I was a teenager into Joy Division. He is a great admirer of Kafka but... better. Delve into his ouevre if you haven't already. The ambience, images, and prose are something absolutely original but comparable to Dostoevsksy, Kafka, Melville, etc.