The Melancholy of Resistance - Rilegato

Krasznahorkai, Laszlo

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ISBN 10: 0811214508 ISBN 13: 9780811214506

Casa editrice: New Directions, 2001

Riassunto

Chaos errupts in a small Hungarian town when a circus promising to display the largest whale in the world arrives despite severe winter weather, and the townspeople begin to constuct bizarre rumors that the circus workers have a sinister plot in mind.

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The Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in an insignificant Hungarian town. A circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the largest whale in the world, arrives in the midst of a terminal frost, prompting bizarre rumors. Word spreads that the circus folk have a sinister purpose at hand, 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 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 The Guardian, "lifts the reader along in lunar leaps and bounds".

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• Editore: New Directions
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0811214508
• ISBN 13: 9780811214506
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 314