George Szirtes
Birth date: November 29, 1948
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Satantango by Laszlo Krasznahorkai has received numerous great reviews and write ups but for me this was a very depressing and claustrophobic read. Longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2013 but it was the cover that caught my attention as I browsed in a book shop and I am a sucke...
This book is divided in three parts plus an epilogue. I loved part one from the very first line, and although the ending of that part was a bit boring, I quite enjoyed it. The problem was the rest of the book. For me, the rest was tedious, boring and I kept wanting to slap the narrators so they got ...
Definitely better and sharper in the short form poetry than in the longer pieces. In the longer poems, the author gets lost in the shape and pattern of the words and it all comes across as muddled and not a little smug. However, the short poems are worth reading.
I wish Gordon Lish had instead written this little book as he would have shown László Krasznahorkai how to do it right. Not that the book wasn't interesting, but I hear the voice of Lish doing much greater damage than LK ever could. Oh well, it is what it is. I still "really liked it" enough to give...
I loved reading this book whenever I was reading it, and perhaps if I had finished it the overall effect would have been amazing, and perhaps I would have finished it if I had been able to sit and plow through it in a couple of sittings. But I couldn't, and I didn't, and so it wasn't. I just lost in...
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