Laszlo Krasznahorkai

The Melancholy of Resistance

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Winner of the 2015 Man Booker International PrizeThe Melancholy of Resistance, L¿l¿ 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… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Szirtes, George (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-1-78125-624-4
EAN: 9781781256244
Produktnummer: 19600519
Verlag: Profile Books Ltd
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 336 S.
Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.8 cm x D2.5 cm 279 g
Auflage: Main
Gewicht: 279

Über den Autor

László Krasznahorkai was born in Gyula, Hungary, in 1954. He has written five novels and won numerous prizes, including the International Man Booker Prize 2015, 2013 Best Translated Book Award in Fiction for Satantango, and 1993 Best Book of the Year Award in Germany for The Melancholy of Resistance For more about Krasznahorkai, visit his extensive website: http://www.krasznahorkai.hu/.