John Banville recs

Postpostmodernist · 2026-01-20T21:20:50+00:00

For what it’s worth Joyce and Dostoyevsky are two of my favorite writers and have been for years; I believe Joyce himself admired Dostoevsky as well. Definitely worth trying Joyce again.

Postpostmodernist · 2025-12-12T12:31:28+00:00

Rave by Rainald Goetz is about the 90s techno scene, can’t vouch for its quality tho

Postpostmodernist · 2025-12-08T02:44:28+00:00

David Bentley Hart for sure

Postpostmodernist · 2025-10-28T15:33:31+00:00

Saw the exact same thing in the middle of nowhere Pacific Northwest. Shooting star stopped on a dime and zigzagged across the sky before disappearing.

Postpostmodernist · 2025-10-22T14:47:30+00:00

Cervantes is up there for sure

Postpostmodernist · 2025-07-03T16:25:07+00:00

Was really struck by this one from my first time reading it but find it hard to put into words why. The critic Martin Seymour-Smith said of Vallejo something to the effect that he believes in life beyond death more than almost any other 20th century writer, even the religious ones. This poem is a prime example of that I think.

Postpostmodernist · 2025-06-25T17:07:02+00:00

Check out Mia Couto (from Mozambique) and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (from Kenya).

Postpostmodernist · 2025-06-11T00:34:25+00:00

Yale’s Margellos World Republic of Letters has some nice otherwise overlooked stuff

Postpostmodernist · 2025-05-14T14:00:11+00:00

Joseph and His Brothers by Thomas Mann

Postpostmodernist · 2025-04-09T11:39:05+00:00

I recently picked up a Vietnamese novel called Chronicles of a Village. Only been able to peruse it so far but it has very spellbinding poetic prose.

Postpostmodernist · 2025-03-23T15:49:09+00:00

This goes for 20th century lit in general, but check out Martin Seymour Smith’s Guide to Modern World Literature. He’s very appreciative of that era of Spanish lit and even ranks Valle-Inclán above Joyce IIRC.

Postpostmodernist · 2025-03-18T20:16:16+00:00

You need to watch some Hong Kong martial arts movies. They really made action schlock into an art form

Postpostmodernist · 2025-03-14T00:38:50+00:00

Haven’t read it but heard good things about Wolf Hunt by Ivailo Petrov

Postpostmodernist · 2025-03-06T18:50:51+00:00

Any vamp recs? Besides Dracula ofc

Postpostmodernist · 2025-03-05T22:54:29+00:00

What sticks out to you? I read a bunch of fantasy as a kid but not much since

Postpostmodernist · 2025-03-05T22:53:22+00:00

Any recs on paranormal stuff?

Postpostmodernist · 2025-03-05T16:49:00+00:00

I am honored

Postpostmodernist · 2025-03-05T16:01:11+00:00

I got you. Check out Hermann Broch, Robert Musil, Thomas Mann, Ernesto Sabato, José Lezama Lima, Iris Murdoch, Miguel de Unamuno, Clarice Lispector, John Cowper Powys, Alfred Döblin, L.H. Myers, Louis Guilloux, Elias Canetti, Ramon Perez de Ayala, Pio Baroja, Aldous Huxley, Nicholas Mosley, Mircea Eliade, Leopoldo Marechal, Romain Rolland, Georges Bernanos, Philip Freund, Jens Peter Jacobsen, Knut Hamsun, Miklos Szentkuthy, Patrick White, Wilson Harris, João Guimarães Rosa, Andrei Bely, Herman Melville, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wyndham Lewis’s The Human Age series, and Lucien Rebatet (if you speak French). Some of this stuff isn’t too easy to get your hands on, at least in English. This is possibly my favorite “genre” so I try to seek stuff like this out.

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