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The Melancholy of Resistance

The Melancholy of Resistance

Author(s):
László Krasznahorkai
ISBN: 9781781256244
Format: B-Format Paperback
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Author: László Krasznahorkai
ISBN: 9781781256244
Format: B-Format Paperback
Publisher: Tuskar Books

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 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.
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