Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by wahnfrieden 255 days ago
He's my favorite working author! (Well, maybe that's Pynchon)

I recommend not only his early works like Satantango but also his recent ones like Seiobo There Below (lucky to have a signed copy of this one).

The short ones are interesting too. Animalinside (with Max Neumann), The Last Wolf.

Interested in checking Chasing Homer which has musical accompaniment: "Publishers Weekly described the book as a cross between a Jean-Claude Van Damme film and the works of Samuel Beckett and Franz Kafka"

2 comments

Seiobo There Below was really hard to get through. Earlier stuff is much less so.
Should I start with Satantango?
Sure, it's a fine place to start

You might also try A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East as a very short one of his later works

Wow I just found out that I have quite a valuable collection of his works - the surprisingly expensive ones that I had casually picked up when they were new:

- The Last Wolf 1st edition, $300

- Satantango 1st edition, $200

- Music & Literature No. 2, unknown value (no record of secondary market resale)

- AnimalInside, $300, only 2000 copies published

Time to encase these in something...