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The Melancholy of Resistance
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The Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo 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 rumours. Word spreads that the circus folk have a sinister purpose in mind, and the frightened citizens cling to any manifestation of order they can findβmusic, 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 centre 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.'
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LΓ‘szlΓ³ Krasznahorkai's The Melancholy of Resistance is praised for its universal vision and depth, likened to classics like Gogol's Dead Souls. Renowned for its energetic and beautiful prose, it addresses earthly and cosmic concerns with a blend of risk and certainty. Critics admire Krasznahorkai for elevating the novel form, and his commitment to fiction is seen as intense and exhilarating.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781781256244
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 12 May 2016
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Tuskar Rock
Edition: Main
Contributors:
- Translated by George Szirtes
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 26.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 280g
Pages: 336
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About the Author
L.szl. Krasznahorkai was born in Gyula, Hungary, in 1954. He has written five novels and won numerous prizes, including the International Man Booker Prize 2015, 2013 Best Translated Book Award in Fiction for Satantango, and 1993 Best Book of the Year Award in Germany for The Melancholy of Resistance
For more about Krasznahorkai, visit his extensive website: http://www.krasznahorkai.hu/.
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