In The World Goes On, a narrator first speaks directly, then tells
eleven unforgettable stories, and then bids farewell ("for here I would
leave this earth and these stars, because I would take nothing with
me"). As László Krasznahoraki himself explains: "Each text is about
drawing our attention away from this world, speeding our body toward
annihilation, and immersing ourselves in a current of thought or a
narrative..." A Hungarian interpreter obsessed with waterfalls, at the
edge of the abyss in his own mind, wanders the chaotic streets of
Shanghai. A traveler, reeling from the sights and sounds of Varanasi,
encounters a giant of a man on the banks of the Ganges ranting on the
nature of a single drop of water. A child laborer in a Portuguese marble
quarry wanders off from work one day into a surreal realm utterly alien
from his daily toils. The World Goes On is another amazing masterpiece
by the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. "The
excitement of his writing," Adam Thirwell proclaimed in the New York
Review of Books, "is that he has come up with this own original
forms--there is nothing else like it in contemporary literature."