/lit/ - Literature

>>16563300
>On Elegance while Sleeping
As a kid, the MC used to be the best corpse finder in his town (bodies would travel down river from Paris). He likes whoring a lot, and praises different STDs.
It's a pretty short diary of a Des Esseintes type (Huysmans) with a bit of the Underground man: full-on Decadence.
The writer's personna is quite interesting.
I could've sworn the English edition was by NYRB but I'm wrong apparently.

>>16564539
Very good book. It was mentioned all the time back when Eastern European lit was more popular (Szerb, Gyula Krudy, Grombowicz, etc). It's still posted in these threads