Just an extra information on Krasznahorkai, which may be helpful for your further 'Krasznahorkai-discovery': «'Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming' is the latest Krasznahorkai novel to reach English readers, in a typically extraordinary translation from Ottilie Mulzet. It represents, as the author recently told The Paris Review in his Art of Fiction interview, the conclusion of a tetralogy: "I’ve said it a thousand times that I always wanted to write just one book. I wasn’t satisfied with the first, and that’s why I wrote the second. I wasn’t satisfied with the second, so I wrote the third, and so on. Now, with Baron, I can close this story. With this novel I can prove that I really wrote just one book in my life. T h i s is the book-'Satantango', 'Melancholy', 'War and War', and 'Baron'. This is my one book."»
May I suggest you an author that I love and appreciate? I am talking about the Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis and his novels 'Christ Recrucified', 'The last Temptation of Christ', 'Freedom or Death', 'The Fratricides', of course 'Zorba the Greek' etc. Another important work of Kazantzakis is his 1938 epic poem 'The Odyssey, a modern sequel' beautifully translated in English by Kimon Friar. If you are interested to discover him I would suggest to start with 'Christ Recrucified'.
@@Manfred-nj8vz Kazantzakis has been an author I’ve been meaning to get to for a long time! The film adaptation of “Last Temptation” is one of my all time favorites!
@@bigstrongbook That's very nice to hear. In case you are interested to approach the novel also through secondary literature, I would suggest to check out the book «Scandalizing Jesus? Kazantzakis's The Last Temptation of Christ Fifty Years On». It contains eighteen scholarly important and interesting essays, among them one by Roderick Beaton I particularly recommend, but also a very interesting two-pages one written by Martin Scorsese.
Just an extra information on Krasznahorkai, which may be helpful for your further 'Krasznahorkai-discovery':
«'Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming' is the latest Krasznahorkai novel to reach English readers, in a typically extraordinary translation from Ottilie Mulzet. It represents, as the author recently told The Paris Review in his Art of Fiction interview, the conclusion of a tetralogy:
"I’ve said it a thousand times that I always wanted to write just one book. I wasn’t satisfied with the first, and that’s why I wrote the second. I wasn’t satisfied with the second, so I wrote the third, and so on. Now, with Baron, I can close this story. With this novel I can prove that I really wrote just one book in my life. T h i s is the book-'Satantango', 'Melancholy', 'War and War', and 'Baron'. This is my one book."»
May I suggest you an author that I love and appreciate? I am talking about the Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis and his novels 'Christ Recrucified', 'The last Temptation of Christ', 'Freedom or Death', 'The Fratricides', of course 'Zorba the Greek' etc. Another important work of Kazantzakis is his 1938 epic poem 'The Odyssey, a modern sequel' beautifully translated in English by Kimon Friar. If you are interested to discover him I would suggest to start with 'Christ Recrucified'.
@@Manfred-nj8vz Kazantzakis has been an author I’ve been meaning to get to for a long time! The film adaptation of “Last Temptation” is one of my all time favorites!
@@bigstrongbook That's very nice to hear. In case you are interested to approach the novel also through secondary literature, I would suggest to check out the book «Scandalizing Jesus? Kazantzakis's The Last Temptation of Christ Fifty Years On». It contains eighteen scholarly important and interesting essays, among them one by Roderick Beaton I particularly recommend, but also a very interesting two-pages one written by Martin Scorsese.