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I've never heard of them. Does anyone have a top suggestion for checking out his works or standout book? And for those of you that have read him, what did you get out the experience? Should I just read Satantango?

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Satantango or the melancholy of resistance are good places to start. His books aren't all the same but there are some qualities they all share.

They're intricate, reference-heavy, postmodern novels with a lot of the emotional intensity purposely occulted behind the prose style. If you like Gass or Sebald you'll have fun.

His recent works are also incredible and very different from the early works. Try Seiobo There Below.

You can also appreciate him through his screenplay work on Bela Tarr's movies.

Oh good to know, I actually haven't read anything of his since war and war. Not for any particular reason, just there are a lot of books.

I also recommend the illustrated novella AnimalInside but you'll need to find a PDF, just found out only 2000 were printed and my copy goes for $300 now :0

Do you have a GoodReads that you'd share?

I've loved all of the work I've read except Satantango, so if you bounce of that novel I would recommend the rest. That said, I started with the short story collection The World Goes On and thought it was brilliant.

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