![]() ![]() 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 centre of the book, the only pure and noble soul to be found.Ĭompact, 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 Guardian, 'lifts the reader along in lunar leaps and bounds. The novel's characters are unforgettable: the evil Mrs. ![]() Titled Melancholie des Widerstands, the opera will be conducted by Marie Jacquot and directed by David Marton, the Staatsoper unter den Linden company said Wednesday. 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 Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai (Az ellanállás melankóliája, 1989) translated from the Hungarian by George Szirtes (1998) New Directinos (2002) 314 pp I ‘ve had Krasznahorkai’s The Melancholy of Resistance on my shelf for some time now. March 29, 2023, 7:03 AM Marc-Andr Dalbavie’s opera based on Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s surrealistic novel The Melancholy of Resistance will premiere next summer in Berlin. The Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in a small Hungarian town.Ī circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the largest whale in the world, arrives in the dead of winter, prompting bizarre rumours. ![]() Winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize ![]()
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