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Kurt

About Me

The protagonist of the novel. As a child, he is misunderstood by his parents and mistreated by his peers, and is generally sullen in complexion and demeanor. He has no friends. As an adult, he is corpulent, socially inept, and absent-minded. He has a nervous breakdown during his match with the Italian grandmaster Turati.

My Interests

Music:

Black Tambourine, Swans, Qua, Slowdive, Phil Spector, The Rational Academy, Spiritualized, Kelis, Steve Albini, The RZA, Sonic Youth, The Go-Betweens, Barrage, Clue to Kalo, Martha and the Vandellas, The Chameleons, DJ Shadow, Shangri-Las, the Ronettes, Serge Gainsbourg, Sun Kil Moon, Lali Puna, Matmos, Gorecki, Low, World's End Girlfriend, Pikelet, To Rococo Rot, The Fascinations, The Shop Assistants, Burzum

Movies:

Alfonso Cuaron, the Shaw Brothers, Werner Herzog, Tsui Hark, Jim Jarmusch, Hal Hartley, Woody Allen, Mike Nichols, David Mamet, Walter Salles, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Akira Kurosawa, John Woo, Sidney Lumet, the Coens, Robert Altman, Errol Morris, Francois Truffaut, Sergio Leone, Les Blank, Chris Marker, Alan Resnais, John Waters

Television:

Brass Eye, The Wire, Deadwood, Media Watch, At the Movies, The Micallef Programme, Nathan Barley,

Books:

Jules and Jim, Slaughterhouse 5, The Brothers Kamazov, First Love, Invitation to a Beheading, Pale Fire, The Trial, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Labyrinths, A Violent Life, The Sound and the Fury, Hopscotch, Herzog, Autumn of the Patriarch, Don Quixote, Portnoy's Complaint, The Invention of Morel, The Tractatus, Bend Sinister,