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The Melancholy of Resistance

Laszlo Krasznahorkai
The Melancholy of Resistance Book PDF

Author : Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 43,7 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.'

The Melancholy of Resistance

László Krasznahorkai
The Melancholy of Resistance Book PDF

Author : László Krasznahorkai
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811215040

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The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai Pdf

From the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize

The Melancholy of Resistance

László Krasznahorkai
The Melancholy of Resistance Book PDF

Author : László Krasznahorkai
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811220101

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The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai Pdf

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, László 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 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."

Satantango

László Krasznahorkai
Satantango Book PDF

Author : László Krasznahorkai
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,7 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].

War & War

László Krasznahorkai,George Szirtes
War War Book PDF

Author : László Krasznahorkai,George Szirtes
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,7 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."

Seiobo There Below

László Krasznahorkai
Seiobo There Below Book PDF

Author : László Krasznahorkai
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,6 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 Last Wolf & Herman

László Krasznahorkai
The Last Wolf Herman Book PDF

Author : László Krasznahorkai
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811226097

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The Last Wolf & Herman by László Krasznahorkai Pdf

Now in paperback, two novellas from the Hungarian master László Krasznahorkai—“one of the most mysterious artists now at work” (Colm Toíbín) The Last Wolf (translated by George Szirtes) is Krasznahorkai in a maddening nutshell—it features a classic obsessed narrator, a man hired (by mistake) to write the true tale of the last wolf in Spain. This miserable experience (being mistaken for another person, dragged about a cold foreign place, and appalled by a species’s end) is narrated—all in a single sentence—as a sad looping tale, a howl more or less, in a dreary Berlin bar to a patently bored bartender. Herman (translated by John Batki), “a peerless virtuoso of trapping who guards the splendid mysteries of an ancient craft gradually sinking into permanent oblivion,” is asked to clear a forest’s last “noxious beasts.” He begins with great zeal, although in time he “suspects that maybe he was ‘on the wrong scent.’” Herman switches sides, deciding to track entirely new game …

Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming

László Krasznahorkai
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Author : László Krasznahorkai
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 653 pages
File Size : 55,8 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.

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 : 52,5 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.”

Chasing Homer

László Krasznahorkai
Chasing Homer Book PDF

Author : László Krasznahorkai
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 48,5 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).

Animalinside

László Krasznahorkai
Animalinside Book PDF

Author : László Krasznahorkai
Publisher : New Directions Publishing Corporation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 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.

Cultural Melancholy

Jermaine Singleton
Cultural Melancholy Book PDF

Author : Jermaine Singleton
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252097713

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Cultural Melancholy by Jermaine Singleton Pdf

A daring cultural and literary studies investigation, Cultural Melancholy explores the legacy of unresolved grief produced by ongoing racial oppression and resistance in the United States. Using acute analysis of literature, drama, musical performance, and films, Singleton demonstrates how rituals of racialization and resistance transfer and transform melancholy discreetly across time, consolidating racial identities and communities along the way. He also argues that this form of impossible mourning binds racialized identities across time and social space by way of cultural resistance efforts. Singleton develops the concept of "cultural melancholy" as a response to scholarship that calls for the separation of critical race studies and psychoanalysis, excludes queer theoretical approaches from readings of African American literatures and cultures, and overlooks the status of racialized performance culture as a site of serious academic theorization. In doing so, he weaves critical race studies, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and performance studies into conversation to uncover a host of hidden dialogues—psychic and social, personal and political, individual and collective—for the purpose of promoting a culture of racial grieving, critical race consciousness, and collective agency. Wide-ranging and theoretically bold, Cultural Melancholy counteracts the racial legacy effects that plague our twenty-first century multiculture.

The Melancholy Void

Felipe Valencia
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Author : Felipe Valencia
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496221148

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The Melancholy Void by Felipe Valencia Pdf

Felipe Valencia examines the construction of lyric as a melancholy and masculinist discourse that sings of and perpetrates symbolic violence against the feminine and the female beloved in key texts of Spanish poetry from 1580 to 1620.

The Book of Grief and Hamburgers

Stuart Ross
The Book of Grief and Hamburgers Book PDF

Author : Stuart Ross
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781773059556

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The Book of Grief and Hamburgers by Stuart Ross Pdf

A poignant meditation on mortality from a beloved Canadian poet A writer friend once pointed out that whenever Stuart Ross got close to something heavy and “real” in a poem, a hamburger would inevitably appear for comic relief. In this hybrid essay/memoir/poetic meditation, Ross shoves aside the heaping plate of burgers to wrestle with what it means to grieve the people one loves and what it means to go on living in the face of an enormous accumulation of loss. Written during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, shortly after the sudden death of his brother left him the last living member of his family and as a catastrophic diagnosis meant anticipating the death of his closest friend, this meditation on mortality — a kind of literary shiva — is Ross’s most personal book to date. More than a catalogue of losses, The Book of Grief and Hamburgers is a moving act of resistance against self-annihilation and a desperate attempt to embrace all that was good in his relationships with those most dear to him.

Store of the Worlds

Robert Sheckley
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Author : Robert Sheckley
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590175088

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Store of the Worlds by Robert Sheckley Pdf

An NYRB Classics Original Robert Sheckley was an eccentric master of the American short story, and his tales, whether set in dystopic city­scapes, ultramodern advertising agencies, or aboard spaceships lighting out for hostile planets, are among the most startlingly original of the twentieth century. Today, as the new worlds, alternate universes, and synthetic pleasures Sheckley foretold become our reality, his vision begins to look less absurdist and more prophetic. This retrospective selection, chosen by Jonathan Lethem and Alex Abramovich, brings together the best of Sheckley’s deadpan farces, proving once again that he belongs beside such mordant critics of contemporary mores as Bruce Jay Friedman, Terry Southern, and Thomas Pynchon.