01405    a2200205   450000100060000000300090000600500170001500800410003202000250007304000130009804100080011108200190011910000230013824500450016126000400020630000290024650400520027552008600032765000120118711378IN-BhIIT20260211180248.0260211b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9781788160124 (pbk.)  aIN-BhIIT  aeng  a894.511bKRA/W  aLszl Krasznahorkai  aThe world goes on /cLszl Krasznahorkai   aLondon :bTuskar Rock Press,c2024.  a311 p. :bill. ;c19 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references. and index.  aA 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 László 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...'  afiction