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The Melancholy of Resistance

By Laszlo Krasznahorkai

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| Paperback | 9780811215046

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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 circContinue

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The Melancholy of Resistance by Laszlo Krasznahorkai

Fans of Bela Tarr’s wonderful film adaptation Werckmeister Harmonies will be familiar with the basic outline of this dense metaphysical parable: a circus turns up to a remote Hungarian town boasting the world’s largest whale, and provokes a mysteriou ... (read full critics)

readysteadybook published on Wed, 4 Apr 2012

The Melancholy of Resistance

The Melancholy of Resistance begins with Mrs Plauf, who has a fearful train trip returning home when a cancelled service forces her to share a carriage with the unwashed masses. Beset by anxieties about sex and security, and seeking familiar comforts ... (read full critics)

dannyreviews published on Thu, 26 Aug 2010

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Not well-suited to reading in line at the post office or just before falling asleep, since it requires a certain degree of dedication. A freight train of a novel: endless sentences, no paragraph breaks, very few chapter divisions. But well worth the effort.
The translator - a fine poet in his o ... (continue)

Not well-suited to reading in line at the post office or just before falling asleep, since it requires a certain degree of dedication. A freight train of a novel: endless sentences, no paragraph breaks, very few chapter divisions. But well worth the effort.
The translator - a fine poet in his own right - apparently spent four years working on it, and one can see why.

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