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Enough About Angels

The Nobel Lecture
By Laszlo Krasznahorkai and László Krasznahorkai
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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... Read More
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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.

Book Details

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

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Biography & Memoir Fiction General Fiction Laszlo Krasznahorkai László Krasznahorkai

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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