To be more specific (but not really) I’m looking to capture that feeling that some European movies have given me when I got into Arthouse cinema. Film like those of Kieslowski, Tarkosvky or novels from writers like Milan Kundera
Setting Free the Bears by John Irving will do it I believe. It’s in Austria. Beautiful book.
testmf on
‘La Storia’ by Elsa Morante. Set in Rome during and after WW2. It’s a classic of the Italian contemporary literature.
testmf on
‘The Evenings’ by Gerard Reve. ‘Mal de Vivre’, boredom and loneliness in the Netherlands after WW2. A great book.
Nodbot on
John Hawkes’ The Cannibal feels like an avant garde movie in post war germany
Obvious-Band-1149 on
Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck (postwar Germany)
whichwoolfwins on
The Neapolitan series by Elena Ferrante
Dazzling-Ad4701 on
the don Camillo stories by Giovanni guareschi. they are a series of parable-like, completely unique short stories set in a little village in the Po river valley in Italy. here is a link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Camillo_and_Peppone
guareschi was a remarkable man. I was a card-carrying Catholic when I read the Don Camillo stories, but I could never predict what Don Camillo’s own “personal” Christ would say to him about whatever was going on.
8 Comments
Setting Free the Bears by John Irving will do it I believe. It’s in Austria. Beautiful book.
‘La Storia’ by Elsa Morante. Set in Rome during and after WW2. It’s a classic of the Italian contemporary literature.
‘The Evenings’ by Gerard Reve. ‘Mal de Vivre’, boredom and loneliness in the Netherlands after WW2. A great book.
John Hawkes’ The Cannibal feels like an avant garde movie in post war germany
Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck (postwar Germany)
The Neapolitan series by Elena Ferrante
the don Camillo stories by Giovanni guareschi. they are a series of parable-like, completely unique short stories set in a little village in the Po river valley in Italy. here is a link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Camillo_and_Peppone
guareschi was a remarkable man. I was a card-carrying Catholic when I read the Don Camillo stories, but I could never predict what Don Camillo’s own “personal” Christ would say to him about whatever was going on.
The Moon and the Bonfires by Cesare Pavese