The Melancholy of Resistance (New Directions Paperbook)
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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 mus
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Manufacturer: New Directions
Release date: 17 June 2002
ISBN-10 : B0099JQP7U |
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Release date: 17 June 2002
ISBN-10 : B0099JQP7U |
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