Hello again!!! I read some books this board recommended here are my brief thoughtsQuiet days in clichy By Henry Miller - very pornographic and a bit boring - but i listened to audiobook most of it and the reader sucked balls so it could be that Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann - I really like Mefisto written by his son. But this one could not get into, lost attention all the time :( bet its good though will return to itHunger by Knut Hamsun - amazing, very good, extremely sad, made me feel seen and very suicidal Was also recomended journey by Celine and Temple of The Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima but i have read them and they are both very good. Any more recs???? Same thing like sad life story stuff but maybe something more modern? Like post 1940? Thank you again this forum was great last time
>>25129593The loser/ frost by Thomas Bernhard The blind owl by sadegh hedayatMaybe:Bergeners by Tomas espedal
>>25129612Oh and the emigrants by w.g. Sebald
>>25129593Mann has a very erudite, stately writing style, and he uses a lot of music theory terms in Doctor Faustus on top of that. He needs some getting used to, but once you do you get a very rewarding reading experience. And not just one that's rigidly intellectual, Adrian's fate is tragic, the ending is one of the few moments in literature that made me shed a tear.I highly recommend listening to the musical pieces brought up in the book as they come up. On top of that I recommend:>a musical explanation for one of the chaptershttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMTJZd4ZKDM>Schoenberg (an inspiration for Adrian)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxO92VQ4h3c>St. Luke's Passion, which also uses the B-A-C-H progressionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G41KmDsN5sPenderecki in particular seems like a much better example of modern music IMO, and I like to imagine that Leverkuhn's pieces would sound similar to his.
>>25129674>like a much better example of modern music IMOAs compared to Schoenberg, that is. Especially since Penderecki is, like Leverkuhn, very interested in oratorios, while most of the "famous" pieces I associate with Schoenberg are instrumental.
