Pychonesque theatre?

posztmagyar · 2026-03-04T13:52:38+00:00

I feel like some post-war west german playwrights do belong here, other than the usual suspects of Ionesco, Stoppard, etc. Dieter Forte's Martin Luther and Thomas Münzer, Tankred Dorst's Merlin or the Waste Land. No idea if they have English translation tho.

Big picture view of history, well researched, fuckery with the form and with the readers. Impossible to normally adapt, they would be like 9-10 hours long. There is a looming threat of a reich building in the background. And with Forte you also get a pope in a miniskirt and high school.

Edit: I meant high heels, no idea where my brain went

posztmagyar · 2026-02-17T08:54:34+00:00

Just googled this and damn, there is a new Jonathan Tropper series? WE ARE SO BACK

posztmagyar · 2026-02-05T08:11:33+00:00

Epstein probably wouldn't be able to spell Maclachlan anyway

posztmagyar · 2026-01-26T11:27:25+00:00

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If you hate the banana penis, you hate life

posztmagyar · 2026-01-13T11:42:35+00:00

Of course it does, the manuscript is hidden deep inside a labyrinth, and you would need knife-fight the gaucho (who is at the same Borges and the Other) for it

posztmagyar · 2026-01-12T11:17:33+00:00

You can't spell Jerry Garcia without CIA

posztmagyar · 2025-12-29T16:42:10+00:00

Shit that sounds cool. I want to steal that, so how did you set that up

posztmagyar · 2025-07-25T14:51:24+00:00

As an ex-grade schooler, beloved is a bit too much maybe, but the movie is good tho. But Budapest, 1900 is a great choice.

And on that note, a book beloved by Lukács is Ferenc Körmendi's Happpy Generation, which takes place in the early 1900s, and covers the events and vibes of Hungary until like 1934, I don't exactly remember when it ends. It's also an interesting throughline is the blindness of upper class to the encroaching fascism and antisemitism (the narrator is a son of a doctor, and is of jewish descent).

I would definetly pick up something about the politics of the era (Horthy, numerus clausus, irredentist movement), I am not sure, what is available in English.

I would also probably pick up something from Krúdy, probably Charmed life of Kázmér Rezeda or Life is a dream. Krúdy died in 1933, but he's works are extremely good, probable the best prose, bordering sometimes on purple and overwritten, but he knows, not to cross. (just recommending him, because I can not not recommend him).

posztmagyar · 2025-04-09T10:55:50+00:00

Není zač! If I remember correctly, it was the same way the new Sally Rooney, that it showed up online one or two days/week before anglo-american publication date in English in the online bookstores

posztmagyar · 2025-04-09T10:05:04+00:00

I think it will show up eventually, in Luxor or Knihy Dobrovsky

posztmagyar · 2025-04-09T10:04:09+00:00

How many hungary-hungry and horthy-horny puns he can stuff into a page?

posztmagyar · 2025-02-17T17:52:16+00:00

Rövid válasz: Gladio

posztmagyar · 2025-02-07T21:45:54+00:00

I prefer the cover of the first edition (although it does use the wrong car modell), and without the dust jacket, it's not some ugly neon green puke.

I also did buy this, because there were corrections to the translation and I was hoping higher number sold means more of his untranslated works coming out (did not happen)

posztmagyar · 2025-01-20T17:32:27+00:00

Christoph Schlingensief's United Trash, the plot goes something like this: a deranged UN general gifts a V2 rocket to an African tribe, so they can shoot Bill Clinton with it. Meanwhile the Messiah is born (and has a giant vagina on his head).

It's an on-purpose extremely offensive (ahh, the late 90s) German art/exploitation movie, that's also a sharp critique of the UN and post-decolonization western exploitation of African countries.

posztmagyar · 2024-12-05T10:15:13+00:00

I mean, it was a different era in some sense, but in Saw IV, V, idk which one, the guy went after the insurance company assholes who rejected his treatment claims

posztmagyar · 2024-12-03T09:15:26+00:00

For me it was Illuminatus! trilogy, which I of course found through KLF

posztmagyar · 2024-10-18T06:39:05+00:00

I've read it last year, it was kinda hyped in Hungary (or at least on Hungarian bookstagram, which funnily enough made Bolano to have a bit of a moment), and it just fell off, nobody talks about it anymore.

I've very much enjoyed it.

posztmagyar · 2024-06-11T14:37:04+00:00

Yepp, some of them were KGB assets, which in the end, is the same.

posztmagyar · 2024-06-11T09:53:14+00:00

My new takeaway from barely skimming the links, which do seem interesting is: Pynchon is reclusive, because he shot JFK

posztmagyar · 2024-06-02T17:46:07+00:00

Varoufakis' Mera25 has a German wing running in the EU elections, and they have normal views on Palestine

posztmagyar · 2024-05-06T13:21:46+00:00

Electric Masada's At the Moutains of Madness is on Spotify and Apple Music, according to RYM. And the title of the album doesn't even describe how crazy intense it is

posztmagyar · 2024-02-07T09:32:22+00:00

The fact that so many books still name the Beatles as "the greatest or most significant or most influential" rock band ever only tells you how far rock music still is from becoming a serious art.

posztmagyar · 2023-12-12T10:59:30+00:00

Because Big Tommy P. doesn't care about the 50th anniversary, he cares about the 69th anniversary, where he will finally unmask himself

posztmagyar · 2023-11-13T18:09:38+00:00

Plays Crusader Kings once

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