The World Goes On

✍ Scribed by Krasznahorkai, László

• Book ID: 109979795
• Publisher: New Directions
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: ar-SA
• Weight: 574 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780811224192

✦ Synopsis

A magnificent new collection of stories by "the contemporary Hungarian master of apocalypse" (Susan Sontag)

In The World Goes On, a narrator first speaks directly, then tells eleven unforgettable stories, and then bids farewell ("for here I would leave this earth and these stars, because I would take nothing with me"). As László Krasznahoraki himself explains: "Each text is about drawing our attention away from this world, speeding our body toward annihilation, and immersing ourselves in a current of thought or a narrative..." A Hungarian interpreter obsessed with waterfalls, at the edge of the abyss in his own mind, wanders the chaotic streets of Shanghai. A traveler, reeling from the sights and sounds of Varanasi, encounters a giant of a man on the banks of the Ganges ranting on the nature of a single drop of water. A child laborer in a Portuguese marble quarry wanders off from work one day into a surreal realm utterly alien from his daily...