I like how it feels to read Kafka. I don't find complex plots or themes engaging (bit slow and not well read), I just enjoy the mood a book sets for me.
Asking for some recommendations of other authors that put a strong emphasis on mood. Ty, ty.
>>7558155
Vonnegut
Kafka
>>7558162
>Vonnegut
i mean good authors, not one hit wonders
murakami. i dislike him for this reason but he should be up your alley.
ishiguro is similar.
possibly you'd be into lauren groff, bit less 'pure mood' but it's juicy imagery.
i laud your pic btw, good kafka pairing
read the unconsoled by kazuo ishiguro, it's very kafka-esque.
>>7558155
McCarthy.
>>7558155
>Kafka
>no complex themes
Do you think The Castle was about a particularly difficult-to-reach castle?
>>7558155
Julien Gracq
>>7558162
Vonnegut is trash go back to r/books
You get a lot of that from older horror stories. There's the obvious Romanticism stuff like Poe or Robert Browning, or the Victorians, as well as some of the earlier weird fiction like Clark Ashton Smith or Algernon Blackwood. None of those are usually shooting for complexity beyond trying to be spooky.
My favorite that falls under that category is probably "The Willows" by Blackwood, quick read and really atmospheric
Thanks for the replies
>>7558287
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>>7558155
-Borges.
-Late Kipling (His stories are very laconic but gripping and masterfully wrought).
>>7558287
>not one hit wonders
pffffff
Barth, Murnane
Thomas Hardy has a very unmistakable atmosphere in his novels and especially his short stories. Read Wessex Tales.
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Read Hermann Ungar ,one of his contemporaries.
>>7558434
what else would it be about, dumbass?
