/lit/ - Literature

Has anybody read satantango ? I do not have any interest watching the movie because i do not know how to analyze one and i don't have enough cinematographic knowledge to enjoy it. I'm reading celine's bibliography right know and would like to read more relativist """""depressive""""" litterature.

By the way if anybody happens to have good recommendations to get in slow cinema i'll take everything

>>17447539
Satantango was a very pleasant discovery and I highly recommend it. Not only because it is the book to read NOW, that is, in the midst of a pandemic, and in winter, with rain, loneliness and poor prospects for the future, but because it is objectively a very good book, by an author who not only has great observation skills but also an enormous sensitivity for structure, literary play, and order - all things that he does without a smudge of pretentiousness, executed, instead, with a lightness, elegance and "effortlessness" which I have rarely encountered in other living authors. Maybe I'm just glad I discovered something new, but for me this novel was really well written, well done, and most of all well imagined. Yes, because Laszlo Krasznahorkai didn't write this book, he imagined it: some writers complain that they were so poor that they couldn't buy themselves food - some, like Hamsun, had to chew wood. Laszlo Krasznahorkai had no pen, paper and desk. In the Hungarian People's Republic, you must work and there was no time to sit down and write shit! But God - or Satan, in this case - gave the good Laszlo the gift of memory: Satantango was written in his head, in blocks of 15-20 pages of text composed and remembered by heart, and then copied. Perhaps this is also why it is designed so well: when reading it, it seems to be inside a brain.

So, anon, thank you for making me discovering this. This is the most interesting novel I have read in a while! I have now started the Melancholy of Resistence and will read everything I can get my hands on.

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This and The Crying of Lot 49. I've been wanting to get into Pynchon for a while now and I heard that The Crying is a good place to start.

>>13134845
The Melancholy of Resistance is absolutely top-level. I felt like Seiobo plus a good editor would have been a second all-time work, but I'm holding on to high hopes for pic related

>>13053012
>Thank you Hungary.

thoughts?

Go to bed children