📗 Libro en inglés THE MELANCHOLY OF RESISTANCE
PROFILE BOOKS - 9781781256244
Sinopsis de THE MELANCHOLY OF RESISTANCE
One of Laszlo Krasznahorkai''s finest novels available in stunning redesigned paperback.
The Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo 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 The Guardian, ''lifts the reader along in lunar leaps and bounds.''
The Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo 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 The Guardian, ''lifts the reader along in lunar leaps and bounds.''
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Profile Books
ISBN: 9781781256244
Idioma: Inglés
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 05/05/2016
Año de edición: 2016
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por László Krasznahorkai
László Krasznahorkai (nascut el 5 de gener de 1954 a Hongria) és un escriptor hongarès reconegut per les seves novel·les denses, filosòfiques i apocalíptiques. La seva prosa es caracteritza per llargues frases hipnòtiques i una atmosfera inquietant. Va guanyar el Premi Man Booker Internacional el 2015 pel conjunt de la seva obra. Entre els seus llibres més coneguts hi ha Sátántangó (1985), que Béla Tarr va adaptar al cinema, i La melancolia de la resistència (1989). La seva obra sovint explora la decadència, l’absurd i el col·lapse de la civilització.
Descubre más sobre László Krasznahorkai Recibe novedades de László Krasznahorkai directamente en tu email
Opiniones sobre THE MELANCHOLY OF RESISTANCE
¡Sólo por opinar entras en el sorteo mensual de tres tarjetas regalo valoradas en 20€*!
