hulit1-9, Exercise 1: Two approaches to prose

Model answer (one possible pairing; check the details):

Esterhazy and Krasznahorkai.
Esterhazy is playful and allusive: he mixes quotation, jokes and family history, and treats the novel as a game with form, in a postmodern manner. Celestial Harmonies builds a portrait of his family from many short pieces.
Krasznahorkai writes long, winding sentences and sustained, bleak, darkly comic visions, in which the reader is carried along in a single flow. Satantango and The Melancholy of Resistance show a world close to collapse.

Contrast: one fragments and plays, the other flows and darkens. Both demand attentive readers and both are formally ambitious.