White Mythology by W.D. Clarke

I've only read the first ten pages, but this is the best written indie-press, English-language novel I can recall reading. Ever. 

 

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László Krasznahorkai

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unable to understand

"Most of the time I find my consolation, laugh if you like, Doctor, in inconsolability. If I am alone I feel like being with people; if I am with people I feel like being alone. I go to the greatest pains to understand others as though they were myself and I am utterly unable to understand any mind but my own."

~~ from Gargoyles by Thomas Bernhard

he wasn't fitted for this post

"Instead, he said, in keeping with his nature: I could think of nothing else but that notice in the newspaper. And he said: My wife discouraged me from coming here; she wants me to apply for a position, but she thought this one a bad idea. She said he wasn't fitted for this post, that he was a teacher. She said to him: You're a teacher; and she said, as she invariably did: A bad teacher."

~~ from Gargoyles by Thomas Bernhard

nothing is more irritating than books

"There was not a single book in the industrialist's house, my father said; he deliberately kept books out of the house in order not to be irritated. After all, nothing is more irritating than books if you want to be alone, must be alone."

~~ from Gargoyles by Thomas Bernhard