EAN: 9781781256244

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

Winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize 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 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.'

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