László Krasznahorkai

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The Melancholy of ResistancePaperback, 17 June 2002

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Part of Series
New Directions Paperbook
Print Length
320 pages
Language
English
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Date Published
17 Jun 2002
ISBN-10
0811215040
ISBN-13
9780811215046

Description

A powerful, surreal novel, in the tradition of Gogol, about the chaotic events surrounding the arrival of a circus in a small Hungarian town. The Melancholy of Resistance, László Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in a small Hungarian town. A circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the largest whale in the world, arrives in the dead of winter, prompting bizarre rumors. Word spreads that the circus folk have a sinister purpose in mind, and the frightened citizens cling to any manifestation of order they can find music, cosmology, fascism. The novel's characters are unforgettable: the evil Mrs. Eszter, plotting her takeover of the town; her weakling husband; and Valuska, our hapless hero with his head in the clouds, who is the tender center of the book, the only pure and noble soul to be found. Compact, powerful and intense, The Melancholy of Resistance, as its enormously gifted translator George Szirtes puts it, is a slow lava flow of narrative, a vast black river of type. And yet, miraculously, the novel, in the words of The Guardian, lifts the reader along in lunar leaps and bounds.

Product Details

Author:
László Krasznahorkai
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
17 June 2002
Dimensions:
19.81 x 13.77 x 2.13 cm
ISBN-10:
0811215040
ISBN-13:
9780811215046
Language:
English
Location:
New York, NY
Pages:
320
Weight:
326.59 gm

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