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Hi Jess,

thank you for your suggestions.

I will certainly try them all and I love how you call them the 'Trilogy of Unreliable Narrator'.

I do agree with you about Murakami. Much as I adore this author, the atmosphere of his books is totally different from 'The unconsoled".

I haven't come across any novels that were really similar to the 'Unconsoled', but someone already commented, I do recommend Laszlo Krasznahorkai as an author of the unusual (Satantango, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming and The Melancholy of Resistance): a disturbing author.

And if you are a film lover, check out some of Bela Tarr's films based on Kraszahorkai's novels or 'Turin Horse'. An amazing discovery for me.

Keep in touch if you think of anything else!

Peter

Thank you! I've been meaning to read Krasznahorkai for awhile--I love the weird. Will note those films, too.

Really can't recommend "In the Heart of the Country" (or the more widely-read "Waiting for the Barbarians") highly enough. I don't even like most Coetzee, but these two books are amazing, totally insane (not just "peering into the mouth of insanity"). Wish more would read, especially the former.

Oh, on Eastern European "weird" films: have you seen the Polish "Demon"? Wonderful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_(...

Thank you for the suggestions, Jess.

"In the heart of the Country" is one of the next books on my "to read" list and I will add "Waiting for the Barbarians" to it as well. I do know the opera adaptation by Philip Glass of the latter quite well (but contemporary opera is hardly everone's cup of tea).
I will also check out "Demon"; it certainly sounds fascinating.

Have you read Ishiguro's latest novel: "Klara and the sun"?

No--was anticipating it and just got it! Thanks for letting me know that it had been released... wonder what flavor of Ishiguro it will be. The "Fresh Air" review on National Public Radio here in the U.S. made it sound somewhat like "Never Let Me Go," but even bigger ideas, sounds great.

And I can't say that I myself am a Philip Glass admirer--much less knowledgable about any opera, honestly; but good on him for adapting that! Can't imagine it as a opera w/ minimalist, modernist music (tho tbf if it was an opera, that'd be the type of music, probably).