László Krasznahorkai

Enough About Angels by László Krasznahorkai, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2025, begins in an intriguing manner: "It may seem to you that I am standing here and speaking into a microphone, but I'm not." The author delivers his 2025 Nobel Lecture to a captivated audience in Stockholm. Yet in his mind, he imagines himself pacing the room—more...

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...