Melancholy resistance / (Record no. 15291)

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001 - CONTROL NUMBER
control field 11374
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
control field IN-BhIIT
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9781781256244 (pbk.)
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency IN-BhIIT
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text eng
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 894.511
Book number KRA/M
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Relator term Author
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Melancholy resistance /
Statement of responsibility, etc Laszlo Krasznahorkai
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication London :
Name of publisher New Directions,
Year of publication 2002.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages 321 p. :
Other physical details(ill.) ill. ;
Dimensions(size) 19 cm.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references. and index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc 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 — 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 center 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.”
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term fiction
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Koha item type Technical Reference Book
Koha issues (borrowed), all copies 1
Holdings
Withdrawn status Lost status Damaged status Not for loan Collection code Home library Current library Date acquired Source of acquisition Cost, normal purchase price Full call number Accession Number Cost, replacement price Price effective from Koha item type
Not withdrawn Not Lost not damaged   GEN Central Library, IIT Bhubaneswar Central Library, IIT Bhubaneswar 29/01/2026 32 449.25 894.511 KRA/M 11374 599.00 29/01/2026 General Books

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