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The Melancholy of Resistance
The Melancholy of Resistance | László Krasznahorkai
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."
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The Melancholy of Resistance | László Krasznahorkai
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Day 14 - #Melancholy #SoulSeptember

From the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize

A surreal novel, about the arrival of a circus 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. The circus folk have a sinister purpose in mind. The citizens cling to any manifestation of order they can find music, cosmology, fascism.

EadieB I own this book as it is on the 1001 book list to read before you die. 5y
Ruthiella @EadieB Are you keeping track of the 1000 books as you go? How many more do you have to read? 5y
EadieB @Ruthiella I have read 236. I actively read most of them in 2015 and read one now and then but do need to get back to reading more. 5y
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The Melancholy of Resistance | László Krasznahorkai
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#riotgrams #day2 - #librarylove

Krasznahorkai is an author I've been meaning to check out for a while, so I picked up these two from the main branch of my county library. Naturally, I've renewed them twice without so much as a read page.