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Oh man, Boris is awesome, I watch his stuff almost every other day! Are you from Poland?
Yep. I was born there (in Silesia) but I'm living in Spain since I was ten.
Awesome
Ask HN: What are some great books that are relatively unknown in the US?
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Re: Ask HN: What are some great books that are relatively unknown in the US?
#172I've started reading French books again recently, and found some great ones: Les Choses, Georges Perec Alcools, Guillaume Appolinaire (poetry) Francois Mitterrand, l'Abeille et l'Architecte (essay/diary)* Bernard Henri Levy, La Pureté Dangereuse (essay)* *AFAIK The last two don't have an English translation.
I recommend Un Homme qui dort by Perec. Really interesting use of 2nd person narration.
There's also an interesting film adaptation available on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPhaT-zjIFA
Re: Ask HN: What are some great books that are relatively unknown in the US?
#173Foreign: * Life: a users manual by George s Perec. * Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal * Auto-da-fe by Elias Canetti Domestic: These are harder because I feel like they’re all pretty well known, but maybe they’re not actually read. Like, known bc people have heard the name, but are not read as much anymore. * Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson * Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon * Blood Meridian by Cormac McC…
Mason & Dixon by Pynchon is also very, very good.
That book is incredible and made me feel uneducated. There are so many references and jokes in that book to historical events, other books, etc. I knew enough to realize how much of that book was going right over my head.
Re: Ask HN: What are some great books that are relatively unknown in the US?
#174This is more a question, in terms of Sci-Fi are people familiar with China Miéville? Perdido Street Station, Embassytown, and The City and the City are classics, Perdido Street Station might be the best fiction I have ever read. Dark stuff
I think he's decently well known. I've seen him mentioned a few times on HN at least, all favorably.
Re: Ask HN: What are some great books that are relatively unknown in the US?
#175The Invisibility Cloak by Ge Fei (2016). Chinese author and setting (contemporary Beijing). Following the theme of the solitary male antihero...a la Murakami.
I read that and liked it. Plus it's short, so it's a good intro for people to see whether they'd be interested in other contemporary Chinese fiction.