War & war / (Record no. 15292)
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| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | 11375 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
| control field | IN-BhIIT |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20260318172457.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 260211b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9781781256237 (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/W |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Krasznahorkai , Laszlo |
| Relator term | Author |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | War & war / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Laszlo Krasznahorkai and translated by George Szirtes |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | London : |
| Name of publisher | New Directions, |
| Year of publication | 2006. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 279 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 | War & War, László Krasznahorkai’s second novel in English from New Directions, begins at a point of danger: on a dark train platform Korim is on the verge of being attacked by thuggish teenagers and robbed; and from here, we are carried along by the insistent voice of this nervous clerk. Desperate, at times almost mad, but also keenly empathic, Korim has discovered in a small Hungarian town’s archives an antique manuscript of startling beauty: it narrates the epic tale of brothers-in-arms struggling to return home from a disastrous war. Korim is determined to do away with himself, but before he can commit suicide, he feels he must escape to New York with the precious manuscript and commit it to eternity by typing it all on the world-wide web. Following Korim with obsessive realism through the streets of New York (from his landing in a Bowery flophouse to his moving far uptown with a mad interpreter), War and War relates his encounters with a fascinating range of humanity, a world torn between viciousness and mysterious beauty. Following the eight chapters of War and War is a short “prequel acting as a sequel,” “Isaiah,” which brings us to a dark bar, years before in Hungary, where Korim rants against the world and threatens suicide. Written like nothing else (turning single sentences into chapters), War and War affirms W. G. Sebald’s comment that Krasznahorkai’s prose “far surpasses all the lesser concerns of contemporary writing.” |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | fiction |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Szirtes, George |
| Relator term | Translator |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Technical Reference Book |
| Koha issues (borrowed), all copies | 1 |
| 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 |
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| Not withdrawn | Not Lost | not damaged | GEN | Central Library, IIT Bhubaneswar | Central Library, IIT Bhubaneswar | 29/01/2026 | 32 | 449.25 | 894.511 KRA/W | 11375 | 599.00 | 29/01/2026 | General Books |