I get there is a doom and gloom but its such a straight, unimaginative reading:
http://calvertjournal.com/articles/show/7274/laszlo-krasznahorkai-satatango-refugees-orban
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 20 February 2017 23:21 (seven years ago) link
i read satantango last year! i'm hardly an academic but i don't really think he was seizing on any one sociopolitical situation and crafting a metaphor for it. you could prob just as easily assign biblical or existential concepts if you pushed hard enough.
― royce jung (slothroprhymes), Monday, 20 February 2017 23:29 (seven years ago) link
a writer friend of mine is pooping his pants about the release of the world goes on later this year. pooping to the extent that it makes me curious about what caused it. what is the best place to start with Krasznahorkai?
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 2 March 2017 03:13 (seven years ago) link
start with satantango. i wasnt a huge fan of seiobo though.
― wmlynch, Thursday, 2 March 2017 03:24 (seven years ago) link
New best place to start is The Last Wolf, only 100 p and very approachable, but indicative of his style and concerns
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Thursday, 2 March 2017 05:37 (seven years ago) link
melancholy of resistance or bust
― art, Thursday, 2 March 2017 05:38 (seven years ago) link
xp- I recently bought Seiobo, read the first, er, paragraph while hi the other night and it either blew my mind or I didn't understand a shred of it. but I may try that out first. thx James
― flopson, Thursday, 2 March 2017 13:01 (seven years ago) link
good call on last wolf & herman. i really enjoyed that
― wmlynch, Thursday, 2 March 2017 13:59 (seven years ago) link