László Krasznahorkai, who won the Nobel prize today, was a night watchman for a herd of cows while writing his first novel. I liked Satantango and The Melancholy of Resistance; reading them it was pretty obvious that he would win a Nobel, not more than 10-20 people alive today write at that level.
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he was who I wanted to be when I grew up. He’s one of the great nonfiction writers of our time, a genius of reportage and the profile, someone who could take any curious whim and turn it into a compelling book.
Is the Next Nobel Laureate in Literature Tending Bar in a Dusty Australian Town?
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This year, I read ten important historical novels: Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, To The Lighthouse, Bleak House, Portrait of a Lady, Anna Karenina, Life and Fate, Heart of Darkness, Madame Bovary, and The Magic Mountain.
Reflections:
• Four of these are more than 800 pages long. The Magic Mountain... See more
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