Yes the plot is very poe, and theres some nietzsche preachiness, but the novel is hilarious absurdist romp: like maldorer, and the ubu plays mixed with diary of my nervous illness and nervals more schizo musings. highly recommended.

skip Moravagine and read this instead.

"The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch," a story based on the Werther motif established by Goethe, is the only book by Czech author Ladislav Klima (1878-1928) currently translated into English. His completed works are available in a few languages, including French.

Reading Sternenhoch for the first time was an indescribable experience for me--it consumed my life--and yet I feared the book, often just staring at it, unable to open it. What other story is so diametrically hilarious and macabre? So evenly fantastic, suspenseful, imaginative, philosophical?

Maybe it was how alone I was at the time, or that I was listening to La Monte Young's "well tuned piano" night and day. It was probably all of these things at once......to say nothing of the Daemoness...