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KRASZNAHORKAI LASZLO THE MELANCHOLY OF RESISTANCE

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2025    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.  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 Guardian   'lifts
the reader along in lunar leaps and bounds.'   Translated by George Szirtes

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