Shortlisted for The Man Booker International Prize 2018 A Hungarian interpreter obsessed with waterfalls, at the edge of the abyss in his own mind, wanders the chaotic streets of Shanghai. A traveller, reeling from the sights and sounds of Varanasi, encounters a giant of a man on the banks of the Ganges ranting on the nature of a single drop of water. A child labourer in a Portuguese marble quarry wanders off from work one day into a surreal realm utterly alien from his daily toils. In The World Goes On, a narrator first speaks directly, tells twenty-one unforgettable stories, then bids farewell ('for here I would leave this earth and these stars, because I would take nothing with me'). As Laszlo Krasznahorkai himself explains: 'Each text is about drawing our attention away from this world, speeding our body toward annihilation, and immersing ourselves in a current of thought or a narrative...' The World Goes On is another masterpiece by the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. 'The excitement of his writing,' Adam Thirlwell proclaimed in the New York Review of Books, 'is that he has come up with his own original forms-there is nothing else like it in contemporary literature.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Profile Books
ISBN: 9781788160124
Idioma: Inglés
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 01/11/2018
Año de edición: 2018
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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.