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 …
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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."
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The Melancholy of Resistance
paperback, 321 pages
English, engelsk language
Published May 12, 2016 by Tuskar Rock.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-78125-624-4Copied ISBN!
Melancolia della resistenza
Paperback, 352 pages
Italian language
Published by Bompiani.
- ISBN:
- 978-88-452-9588-1Copied ISBN!
The Melancholy of Resistance
Paperback, 320 pages
English language
Published Dec. 13, 2002 by New Directions Publishing Corporation.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-8112-1504-6Copied ISBN!
La mélancolie de la résistance
EPUB, 448 pages
French language
Published Sept. 30, 2016 by Gallimard.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-07-267328-3Copied ISBN!
The Melancholy of Resistance
288 pages
English language
Published Dec. 13, 1998 by Quartet Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7043-8009-7Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 42366907
La mélancolie de la résistance
EPUB, 448 pages
French language
Published Sept. 30, 2016 by Gallimard.
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- 978-2-07-267328-3Copied ISBN!
The Melancholy of Resistance
Hardcover, 314 pages
English language
Published Dec. 13, 2000 by New Directions.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-8112-1450-6Copied ISBN!
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