The Melancholy of Resistance

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Beschreibung

<p><b>WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2025</b><br><br><i>The Melancholy of Resistance</i>, László Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in a small Hungarian town.<br><br>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 find - music, cosmology, fascism.<br><br>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.<br><br>Compact, powerful and intense, <i>The Melancholy of Resistance</i>, 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 <i>Guardian</i>, 'lifts the reader along in lunar leaps and bounds.'<br><br><b>Translated by George Szirtes</b></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781781256244

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

198 x 128 x 25 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Verlag / Hersteller

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