László Krasznahorkai The Melancholy of Resistance (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)All Tariffs and Duties included - no additional charges
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László Krasznahorkai The Melancholy of Resistance (Paperback) (UK IMPORT). Author: László Krasznahorkai. 'Translated by George Szirtes. Format: Paperback. Subtitle: Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2025. Missing Information?. Item Height: 196mm. Language: English. Further Details. Further DetailsTitle: The Melancholy of Resistance Condition: New Subtitle: Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2025 Author: László Krasznahorkai Translator: George Szirtes Contributor: George Szirtes (Translated by) Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 1781256241 EAN: 9781781256244 ISBN: 9781781256244 Edition: Main Publisher: Tuskar Rock Genre: Fiction Release Date: 05/12/2016 Description: WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2025The 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 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.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 Guardian, 'lifts the reader along in lunar leaps and bounds.'Translated by George Szirtes Language: English Item Height: 196mm Item Length: 128mm Item Width: 26mm Item Weight: 276g Release Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
