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020			_a9781788160124 (pbk.)
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041			_aeng
082			_a894.511 _bKRA/W
100			_aLszl Krasznahorkai _927119
245			_aThe world goes on / _cLszl Krasznahorkai
260			_aLondon : _bTuskar Rock Press, _c2024.
300			_a311 p. : _bill. ; _c19 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references. and index.
520			_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...'
650			_afiction _9359
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