Name: the melancholy of resistance
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Author: László Krasznahorkai
ISBN: 9780811215046

Type

Physical Book

Author

László Krasznahorkai

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.8x13.8x2.1 cm

Weight

0.33 kg.

ISBN

0811215040

ISBN13

9780811215046

Synopsis "the melancholy of resistance"

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 in the dead of winter, prompting bizarre rumors. 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. 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 center 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.

László Krasznahorkai

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László Krasznahorkai (Gyula, Hungría, 1954) recorrió durante años el país después de estudiar en Budapest y ejerció diversas profesiones en pueblos y ciudades de provincias. Acantilado ha publicado Melancolía de la resistencia (2001)—con la que se presentó a los lectores en lengua española—, Al Norte la montaña, al Sur el lago, al Oeste el camino, al Este el río (2005), Guerra y guerra (2009), Ha llegado Isaías (2009), Y Seiobo descendió a la Tierra (2015), Tango satánico (2017), Relaciones misericordiosas (2023) y El barón Wenckheim vuelve a casa (2024). Varias de sus obras han sido llevadas al cine. En 2004 recibió del Gobierno húngaro el Premio Kossuth, uno de los más prestigiosos de su país, por el conjunto de su obra; en 2015, el Man Booker International; en 2021, el Premio Austríaco de Literatura Europea, y en 2024, el Premio Formentor de las Letras.

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