Recommend me books with heavy atmosphere, so heavy it feels like a Tarkovsky movie
>>8004176
samuel beckett novels are kind of like nostalghia
>>8004191
yeah i've heard people say that. Which ones do you recommend?
>>8004200
i've only read molloy and malone dies. need to get to the unnamable soon.
i think both nostalghia and those books are so minimal that they're practically a rorschach test for the reader. you'll get a lot out of just considering what sticks out to you.
The modernists - Faulkner, Woolf, some Joyce - come close in terms of the drifting stream of consciousness and sleepy impressionistic atmosphere, but I've never read anything where that atmosphere itself feels like Tarkovsky's mystic countryside. Proust doesn't exactly read like a Tarkovsky film stylistically, but you get a lot of the same themes and explorations of consciousness.
Can I ask if you just finished Tarkovsky's filmography? I remember some years back when I was just discovering art film seeing Nostalghia in theatre and going through a year or so of Tarkovsky obsession. After tracking down and watching everything he had it was this kind of post-Tarkovsky depression. Had to find something else like his work. Antonioni? Tarr? Bergman? Ceylan? Nope, nope, nope, nope, ... eventually went looking for Tarkovsky-esque literature to no avail. Ended up getting really into classical painting for a while ...
Anyways your post just gives me a laugh thinking someone else might be in the same place ...
1.5g shrooms
.5g opium
go for a walk in the woods with some reefer listening to the stalker soundtrack and think about how much you love(d) mom
>>8004226
Yes i'm in the same spot as you. Listening to Bach is helping tho.
>>8004176
>>8004226
You should seek out filmmakers that utilize long takes. Like Bela Tarr, for example. His films feel similar to Tarkovsky's in atmosphere.
>>8004271
He mentioned Tarr in his post
The Four-Gated City by Doris Lessing
It's comfy, slightly dystopian, and rolls though the decades following an alternate and near apocalyptic second world war in truly beautiful prose
>>8004289
Oh, missed that. Then Jancso and Angelopoulos.
I don't know Tarkovsky *queue angry mob,* but I see someone suggested Proust might interest you, and I know him, so I'll give my suggestion. Also, you said, "heavy atmosphere," ....
Haruki Murakami
>Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
>Kafka on the Shore
>>8004176
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Krasznahorkai despite having listed Tarr.
And that's pretty much the entire list. I know a lot of people here have traditionally answered Dostoevsky to this question but the similarities are superficial.
>>8004238
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>>8004364
You seem like a reasonable human being, how should I get into Proust? I've never read anything of him before, but I enjoy some Murakami
Wuthering Heights, maybe?
>>8004226
What about Reygadas?
>>8004364
murakami might be as much of an opposite of tarkovsky as there could be
chink - SLAV
new age atheist - ORTHODOXY
adhd speed - MEDITATIVE
sloppy - TIGHT
inanimate - HUMAN
smug - SELFLESS
pop culture - THE GLORY OF GOD AND LIFE
Wordsworth poetry!!!!
>>8004464
>smaller than a Jap
lol tinikovsky
Gogol is the correct answer btw.
>>8004464
Swann's Way is all I've read by him. You can get it free on Gutenberg, which I did, and it was well worth it.
>>8004684
Like I said, I don't know Tarkovsky, but you don't seem to understand Murakami at all.
>>8004238
The mushrooms AND opium aren't enough...You still need pot? Good grief, man.
>>8004728
I was at home in my ultramodern apartment in my green striped tie letting the pasta simmer and keeping an eye over my shoulder on the television when Gobaru Nikanormo rang on the telephone. I told her I wasn't home without really realizing why when she phased through the wall and started sucking me off. I busted a nut right as the Hawaii Five-O theme climaxed on TV. Me and Gobaru Nikanomo shared some of the ramen and then I remembered my first job where I worked at a bowling alley and shined cowboy boot bowlign shoes all day.
Anything by Joyce Carol Oates.
>>8004364
Pleb, kill yourself.
>>8004176
watch Kis Uykusu aka Winter Sleep by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. it definitely has a debt to Tarkovsky.
>>8004744
Correct answer.
>>8004226
Watch Bresson, particularly Mouchette, Au Hasard Balthazaar and Diary of a Country Priest
>>8004744
where to start with her?
>>8004364
>queue angry mob
it's a doggy dog world
>>8004176
I don't know what to recommend, but it's interesting to find a place where people discuss about things I like, and they propose another things I like as suggestions.
Never happened in my real life. I do not find the atmosphere of Tarkovskiy's movies heavy. And I did not read that many books lately. "As I lay dying" seemed heave to me, but maybe not to other people. I did not finish the book, as the characters started to display behaviour which doesn't seem natural to me.
>>8005401
Maybe he really did mean queue, it's good to save angry mobs for later
>>8006610
i like you
>>8004789
Hipster, you first.
Gene Wolfe
>>8004176
Maybe DeLillo?
>>8006933
You're reading murakami and out of every single author existent in the world you mention him, which is the #1 dog shit hipster author.
Only hipster is you "queue angry mob"
>>8004789
>>8004743
I said you don't understand him, not that you haven't read anything by him.
I was 16 when I first read Murakami, at the suggestion of two of my close friends and their fathers. One is a Yale graduate professor, who is fluent in Japanese and spent a great deal of time in Japan, and the other an ex-MIT professor and one of the foremost linguists still living, who is also fluent in multiple languages (and even his son is fluent in four - among them Japanese).
Now, years later, I'm also fluent in Japanese (though not at their levels), and very versed in Japan's history and culture.
So I hope you understand why I'll take my own, and their, assessments of Murakami's work over yours.
OP asked for a recommendation and I gave one. Take it or leave it.
>>8006990
I read Murakami in HS. The novels I suggested are, to me, heavy in atmosphere - as OP asked for.
>>8007007
Murakami receives too much flack because he's "mainstream". I think a lot of his stuff is definitely worth a read.
>>8007120
Thank you.
>>8007007
LMAO.
Gas yourself, seriously
>>8007007
out of your entire fedora collection, which is your favorite?
Can't believe no one mentioned Great Expectations
my diary desu senpai
It literally became a Tarkovsky movie
>>8004176
This would be a good opportunity for you to read the old testament, you know.
>>8004364
Actually the atmosphere at the beginning of Wind-Up was pretty cool. It captured the quiet terror of an empty suburb at mid-day when everyone's at work pretty well. Also whenKumiko vanished and Toru slowly realised she was never going to come backI really felt the feels.
>>8008171
Sorry, I won't let mankind go into decline that easily.
>>8008273
I haven't read Wind-Up yet, but you make me want to. I love nearly all his work I've read. He has some really strange and uncommon themes in his writing.
His characters are often neurotic, and he communicates their fixations in a way that is dreamlike, and almost makes me feel as if the character's neuroses are my own.
This, too, reminds me of Proust. The way the child obsessed over his mother's goodnight kiss in Swann's Way was so well communicated I felt like I was the boy. Proust did it better than Murakami, though, I must admit.
>>8008368
>Proust did it better than Murakami, though, I must admit.
controversial opinions all over the place
u a madman
>>8004176
Beckett's short fiction is what you're looking for.
>>8004410
>Krasznahorkai
This
>>8008368
Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a great Murakami novel. It's slow (intentionally) in the beginning, but once you get through it you'll be extremely glad you did.
>>8008232
i was thinking about reading this, now i will
>>8008232
its a decent Sci-fi novel, but nothing more than that
>>8004269
Errhhh, what? why? That's nothing like Tarkovsky.
>>8004364
baitin so hard we can't handle
>>8004695
kek'd
>>8006853
I don't know you, so I cannot say that I like you...
>>8004364
>>8009232
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>>8008273
>>8007120
>>8007007
>>8006990
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Well, this is not discussion about Murakami. But as everyone is discussing it, I might express my opinion - I excuse everyone who doesn't like it - I am not overly familiar with literature, studying in STEM field in fact.
One cannot deny that Murakami has a lot of talent. I have read most of his books when I was 16-18, and I really liked them at that time. He is actually very opposite, as >>8004684
has noticed, to Tarkovsky, but I would not agree with the reasons. In my understanding Murakami is a very conformistic writer, and he is very good in conveying this conformism to the reader (actually the best among the authors I've read). His books actually reads like some sort of anime. And actually not many authors have left this feeling of very involving atmosphere to me, the other one I could think of right now is Salman Rushdie.
Now, coming back to Tarkovsky - I don't think that for example Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable (those are actually some of my favourite books right now) are similar to his movies. Beckett is somehow more hard, maybe more cynical. Tarkovsky is more pure. I think that Invisible Cities (Calvino) more similar to Tarkovsky than the aforementioned books.
>>8009398
Right, Murakami has a lot of atmosphere, but I think OP was looking for atmosphere similar to Tarkovsky's. I think Calvino is kind of on point, but he's maybe a bit to funny in his weird sort of way.
I think I would throw in the Magic Mountain by Mann as a contender for most Tarkovskyesque (holy shit) book for me.
>>8004695
Kurosawa was 6'.
