โ Burton, Robert;
๐ Fiction
๐
2016
๐ anboco
๐ English
โ 1 MB
โฆ LIBER โฆ
The Melancholy of Resistance
โ Scribed by Lรกszlรณ Krasznahorkai
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Year
- 1998;2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 309 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
From the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize 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 , Laszlo 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...
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