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020			_a9781909631236 (hbk.)
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041			_aeng
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100			_aKrasznahorkai, László _eAuthor _927226
245			_aThe manhattan project / _cLászló Krasznahorkai
260			_bsylph editions _c2017
300			_a87 p. : _bill. ; _c30 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references. and index.
520			_aInternationally celebrated Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai has been heralded by Susan Sontag as “the Hungarian master of the apocalypse” and compared favorably to Gogol by W. G. Sebald. A new work by Krasznahorkai is always an event, and The Manhattan Project is no less. As part of Krasznahorkai’s fellowship at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, he has been working on a novella inspired by a reading of Moby-Dick. Yet, as he follows in Herman Melville’s footsteps, a second book alongside the original novella took shape. The Manhattan Project is that book. Offering a unique account of a great literary mind at work, Krasznahorkai reveals here the incidences and coincidences that shape his process of writing and creating. The Manhattan Project explores the act of creation through the lens of Krasznahorkai’s encounter with Melville, and it places this vision alongside the work of others who have crossed Melville’s path, both literally and fictionally.
650			_aFiction _9359
942			_cGEN _01
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