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Enough About Angels
The Nobel Lecture
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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...
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The brilliant Nobel Prize lecture by László Krasznahorkai, who was awarded for 'his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art'
The brilliant Nobel Prize lecture by László Krasznahorkai, who was awarded for 'his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art'
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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 precisely, the room in the tower he inhabits, a tower that is merely so owing to the incline of the hill.
Throughout his lecture, Krasznahorkai contemplates the presence of angels, the power of humanity, and how amidst our current degraded epoch, destruction might give rise to rebellion. These reflections are expertly woven into his narrative, offering a profound exploration of existential themes relevant to our times.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781806491070
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 02 April 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Tuskar Rock
Edition: Main
Contributors:
- Translated by Ottilie Mulzet
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 16.0mm
Width: 110.0mm
Height: 176.0mm
Weight: 65g
Pages: 64
About the Author
László Krasznahorkai has won the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature for Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming, the 2015 Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement and the 2024 Prix Formentor for lifetime achievement. Several of his most famous novels including Satantango and The Melancholy of Resistance were turned into films by the director Béla Tarr.
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