TY  - GEN
AU  - Krasznahorkai ,  Laszlo 
AU  - Mulzet, Ottilie 
TI  - Destruction and sorrow beneath the heavens : : reportage 
SN  - 9780857425331 (pbk.)
U1  - 894.5112 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - London
PB  - Seagull Books
KW  - Hungarian literature
KW  - Description and travel
N1  - Includes bibliographical references. and index
N2  - The only nonfiction work by Krasznahorkai available in English, a bracing account of traveling through China at the turn of the twenty-first century.
Known for his brilliantly dark fictional visions, László Krasznahorkai is one of the most respected European writers of his generation. Here, he brings us on a journey through China at the dawn of the twenty-first century. On the precipice of its emergence as a global power, China is experiencing cataclysms of modernity as its harsh Maoist strictures meet the chaotic flux of globalization. What remains of the Middle Kingdom’s ancient cultural riches? And can a Westerner truly understand China’s past and present—or the murky waters where the two meet?
Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens is both a travel memoir and the chronicle of a distinct intellectual shift as one of the most captivating contemporary writers and thinkers begins to engage with the cultures of Asia and the legacies of its interactions with Europe in a newly globalized society
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