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Seiobo There Below

László Krasznahorkai
Seiobo There Below Book PDF

Author : László Krasznahorkai
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811221191

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Seiobo There Below by László Krasznahorkai Pdf

From the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize The latest novel from “the contemporary Hungarian master of the apocalypse” (Susan Sontag) Seiobo — a Japanese goddess — has a peach tree in her garden that blossoms once every three thousand years: its fruit brings immortality. In Seiobo There Below, we see her returning again and again to mortal realms, searching for a glimpse of perfection. Beauty, in Krasznahorkai’s new novel, reflects, however fleetingly, the sacred — even if we are mostly unable to bear it. Seiobo shows us an ancient Buddha being restored; Perugino managing his workshop; a Japanese Noh actor rehearsing; a fanatic of Baroque music lecturing a handful of old villagers; tourists intruding into the rituals of Japan’s most sacred shrine; a heron hunting.… Over these scenes and more — structured by the Fibonacci sequence — Seiobo hovers, watching it all.

The World Goes On (Third Edition)

László Krasznahorkai
The World Goes On Third Edition Book PDF

Author : László Krasznahorkai
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811224208

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The World Goes On (Third Edition) by László Krasznahorkai Pdf

Now in paperback, a transcendent and wide-ranging collection of stories by László Krasznahorkai: “a visionary writer of extraordinary intensity and vocal range who captures the texture of present-day existence in scenes that are terrifying, strange, appallingly comic, and often shatteringly beautiful.”—Marina Warner, announcing the Booker International Prize In The World Goes On, a narrator first speaks directly, then narrates a number of unforgettable stories, and then bids farewell (“here I would leave this earth and these stars, because I would take nothing with me”). As László Krasznahorkai 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, India, encounters a giant of a man on the banks of the Ganges ranting on and on about 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 toils. “The excitement of his writing,” Adam Thirlwell proclaimed in The New York Review of Books, “is that he has come up with his own original forms—there is nothing else like it in contemporary literature.”

Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming

László Krasznahorkai
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Author : László Krasznahorkai
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 653 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811226653

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Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming by László Krasznahorkai Pdf

WINNER OF THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE "Krasznahorkai’s masterpiece" (The Millions); "Apocalyptic, visionary, and mad" (Publishers Weekly); "One of the supreme achievements of contemporary literature" (Paris Review); "Obsessive and visionary" (The New Yorker); "Genius" (The Baffler) At last, the capstone to Krasznahorkai’s four-part masterwork Set in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin–like figure, Baron Béla Wenckheim, who returns at the end of his life to his provincial Hungarian hometown. Having escaped from his many casino debts in Buenos Aires, where he was living in exile, he longs to be reunited with his high-school sweetheart Marika. Confusions abound, and what follows is an endless storm of gossip, con men, and local politicians, vividly evoking the small town’s alternately drab and absurd existence. All along, the Professor—a world-famous natural scientist who studies mosses and inhabits a bizarre Zen-like shack in a desolate area outside of town—offers long rants and disquisitions on his attempts to immunize himself from thought. Spectacular actions are staged as death and the abyss loom over the unsuspecting townfolk.

War & War

László Krasznahorkai,George Szirtes
War War Book PDF

Author : László Krasznahorkai,George Szirtes
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811220118

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War & War by László Krasznahorkai,George Szirtes Pdf

From the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize A novel of awesome beauty and power by the Hungarian master, Laszla Krasznahorkai. Winner of a 2005 PEN Translation Fund Award. War and War, Laszla Krasznahorkai's second novel in English from New Directions, begins at a point of danger: on a dark train platform Korim is on the verge of being attacked by thuggish teenagers and robbed; and from here, we are carried along by the insistent voice of this nervous clerk. Desperate, at times almost mad, but also keenly empathic, Korim has discovered in a small Hungarian town's archives an antique manuscript of startling beauty: it narrates the epic tale of brothers-in-arms struggling to return home from a disastrous war. Korim is determined to do away with himself, but before he can commit suicide, he feels he must escape to New York with the precious manuscript and commit it to eternity by typing it all on the world-wide web. Following Korim with obsessive realism through the streets of New York (from his landing in a Bowery flophouse to his moving far uptown with a mad interpreter), War and War relates his encounters with a fascinating range of humanity, a world torn between viciousness and mysterious beauty. Following the eight chapters of War and War is a short "prequel acting as a sequel," "Isaiah," which brings us to a dark bar, years before in Hungary, where Korim rants against the world and threatens suicide. Written like nothing else (turning single sentences into chapters), War and War affirms W. G. Sebald's comment that Krasznahorkai's prose "far surpasses all the lesser concerns of contemporary writing."

The Melancholy of Resistance

Laszlo Krasznahorkai
The Melancholy of Resistance Book PDF

Author : Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782832409

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The Melancholy of Resistance by Laszlo Krasznahorkai Pdf

Winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize The Melancholy of Resistance, Lszl 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.'

Chasing Homer

László Krasznahorkai
Chasing Homer Book PDF

Author : László Krasznahorkai
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811227988

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Chasing Homer by László Krasznahorkai Pdf

A classic escape nightmare, Chasing Homer is sped on not only by Krasznahorkai’s signature velocity, but also by a unique musical score and intense illustrations In this thrilling chase narrative, a hunted being escapes certain death at breakneck speed—careening through Europe, heading blindly South. Faster and faster, escaping the assassins, our protagonist flies forward, blending into crowds, adjusting to terrains, hopping on and off ferries, always desperately trying to stay a step ahead of certain death: the past did not exist, only what was current existed—a prisoner of the instant, rushing into this instant, an instant that had no continuation … Krasznahorkai—celebrated for the exhilarating energy of his prose—outdoes himself in Chasing Homer. And this unique collaboration boasts beautiful full-color paintings by Max Neumann and—reaching out of the book proper—the wildly percussive music of Szilveszter Miklós scored for each chapter (to be accessed by the reader via QR codes).

Satantango

László Krasznahorkai
Satantango Book PDF

Author : László Krasznahorkai
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811217347

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Satantango by László Krasznahorkai Pdf

"Set in an isolated hamlet, Satantango unfolds over the course of a few rain-soaked days. Only a dozen inhabitants remain in the bleak village, rank with the stench of failed schemes, betrayals, failure, infidelity, sudden hopes, and aborted dreams. At the center of Satantango is the eponymous drunken dance"--Page [i].

Seiobo There Below

Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Seiobo There Below Book PDF

Author : Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782831884

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Seiobo There Below by Laszlo Krasznahorkai Pdf

Winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize Beauty, in Lszl Krasznahorkai's new novel, reflects, however fleeting, the sacred - even if we are mostly unable to bear it. In Seiobo There Below we see the Japanese goddess Seiobo returning to mortal realms in search of perfection. An ancient Buddha being restored; the Italian renaissance painter Perugino managing his workshop; a Japanese Noh actor rehearsing; a fanatic of Baroque music lecturing to a handful of old villagers; tourists intruding into the rituals of Japan's most sacred shrine; a heron as it gracefully hunts its prey. Told in chapters that sweep us across the world and through time, covering the furthest reaches of human experience, Krasznahorkai demands that we pause and ask ourselves these questions: What is sacred? How do we define beauty? What makes great art endure? Melancholic and mesmerisingly beautiful, this latest novel by the author of Satantango shows us how to glimpse the divine through extraordinary art and human endeavour. Winner of Best Translated Book of the Year Award 2014 Translated by Ottilie Mulzet

Animalinside

László Krasznahorkai
Animalinside Book PDF

Author : László Krasznahorkai
Publisher : New Directions Publishing Corporation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art in literature
ISBN : 081121916X

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Animalinside by László Krasznahorkai Pdf

From the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize Limited to 2,000 gorgeous copies, this richly illustrated, extraordinary novella was created in collaboration with the famed painter Max Neumann.

little scratch

Rebecca Watson
little scratch Book PDF

Author : Rebecca Watson
Publisher : Strange Light
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771005848

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little scratch by Rebecca Watson Pdf

In the formally innovative tradition of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and Ducks, Newburyport comes a dazzlingly original, shot-in-the-arm of a debut that reveals a young woman's every thought over the course of one deceptively ordinary day. She wakes up, goes to work. Watches the clock and checks her phone. But underneath this monotony there's something else going on: something under her skin. Relayed in interweaving columns that chart the feedback loop of memory, the senses, and modern distractions with wit and precision, our narrator becomes increasingly anxious as the day moves on: Is she overusing the heart emoji? Isn't drinking eight glasses of water a day supposed to fix everything? Why is the etiquette of the women's bathroom so fraught? How does she define rape? And why can't she stop scratching? Fiercely moving and slyly profound, little scratch is a defiantly playful look at how our minds function in--and survive--the darkest moments.

Autobiography of a Corpse

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Autobiography of a Corpse Book PDF

Author : Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590176962

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Autobiography of a Corpse by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky Pdf

An NYRB Classics Original Winner of the 2014 PEN Translation Prize Winner of the 2014 Read Russia Prize The stakes are wildly high in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s fantastic and blackly comic philosophical fables, which abound in nested narratives and wild paradoxes. This new collection of eleven mind-bending and spellbinding tales includes some of Krzhizhanovsky’s most dazzling conceits: a provincial journalist who moves to Moscow finds his existence consumed by the autobiography of his room’s previous occupant; the fingers of a celebrated pianist’s right hand run away to spend a night alone on the city streets; a man’s lifelong quest to bite his own elbow inspires both a hugely popular circus act and a new refutation of Kant. Ordinary reality cracks open before our eyes in the pages of Autobiography of a Corpse, and the extraordinary spills out.

The Bone Fire

György Dragomán
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Author : György Dragomán
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02
Category : FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY
ISBN : 9780544527201

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The Bone Fire by György Dragomán Pdf

Finalist for Le prix du Meilleur livre tranger (France) * A Finalist for the Premio von Rezzori (Italy) * Longlisted for the Prix Femina (France) From an award-winning and internationally acclaimed European writer, and for fans of The Tiger's Wife A chilling and suspenseful novel set in the wake of a violent revolution about a young girl rescued from an orphanage by an otherworldly grandmother she's never met

Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts Into Tears

Laszlo F. Foldenyi
Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts Into Tears Book PDF

Author : Laszlo F. Foldenyi
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780300167498

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Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts Into Tears by Laszlo F. Foldenyi Pdf

An exemplary collection of work from one of the world's leading scholars of intellectual history "Földényi . . . stage[s] a broad metaphysical melodrama between opposites that he pursues throughout this fierce, provoking collection (expertly translated by Ottilie Mulzet). . . . He proves himself a brilliant interpreter of the dark underside of Enlightenment ambition."--James Wood, New Yorker László Földényi's work, in the long tradition of public intellectual and cultural criticism, resonates with the writings of Montaigne, Walter Benjamin, and Thomas Mann. In this new essay collection, Földényi considers the continuing fallout from the collapse of religion, exploring how Enlightenment traditions have not replaced basic elements of previously held religious mythologies--neither their metaphysical completeness nor their comforting purpose. Realizing beautiful writing through empathy, imagination, fascination, and a fierce sense of justice, Földényi covers a wide range of topics including a meditation on the metaphysical unity of a sculpture group and an analysis of fear as a window into our relationship with time.

Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch?

Hans Fallada
Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch Book PDF

Author : Hans Fallada
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241339251

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Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch? by Hans Fallada Pdf

'It was what we call in the trade a potato...' Tales of low-lifes and grifters trying to make ends meet in pre-War Germany. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

Spadework for a Palace (Storybook ND Series)

László Krasznahorkai
Spadework for a Palace Storybook ND Series Book PDF

Author : László Krasznahorkai
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811228411

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Spadework for a Palace (Storybook ND Series) by László Krasznahorkai Pdf

A joyful ode—in a single soaring, crazy sentence—to the interconnectedness of great (and mad) minds Spadework for a Palace bears the subtitle “Entering the Madness of Others” and offers an epigraph: “Reality is no obstacle.” Indeed. This high-octane obsessive rant vaults over all obstacles, fueled by the idées fixe of a “gray little librarian” with fallen arches whose name—mr herman melvill—is merely one of the coincidences binding him to his lodestar Herman Melville (“I too resided on East 26th Street . . . I, too, had worked for a while at the Customs Office”), which itself is just one aspect of his also being “constantly conscious of his connectedness” to Lebbeus Woods, to the rock that is Manhattan, to the “drunkard Lowry” and his Lunar Caustic, to Bartok. And with this consciousness of connection he is not only gaining true knowledge of Melville, but also tracing the paths to “a Serene Paradise of Knowledge.” Driven to save that Palace (a higher library he also serves), he loses his job and his wife leaves him, but “people must be told the truth: there is no dualism in existence.” And his dream will be “realized, for I am not giving up: I am merely a day-laborer, a spade-worker on this dream, a herman melvill, a librarian from the lending desk, currently an inmate at Bellevue, but at the same time—may I say this?—actually a Keeper of the Palace."