01663 a2200229 4500 11374 IN-BhIIT 20260318172504.0 260211b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781781256244 (pbk.) IN-BhIIT eng 894.511 KRA/M Laszlo Krasznahorkai Author 27118 Melancholy resistance / Laszlo Krasznahorkai London : New Directions, 2002. 321 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. Includes bibliographical references. and index. 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.” fiction 359 TRB 1 15291 15291 0 0 ddc 0 0 GEN CLIITBBS CLIITBBS 2026-01-29 32 449.25 1 1 894.511 KRA/M 11374 2026-05-07 17:49:08 2026-03-18 599.00 2026-01-29 GEN