The Melancholy Of Resistance Laszlo Krasznahorkai George Szirtes by Laszlo Krasznahorkai, George Szirtes 9780811220101, 0811220109, B0099JQP7U instant download after payment.

The Melancholy of Resistance, László Krasznahorkai’s magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in a small Hungarian town. 

A circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the largest whale in the world, arrives in the dead of winter, prompting bizarre rumours. 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 novel’s characters are unforgettable: the evil Mrs 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. Compact, 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 The Guardian, "lifts the reader along in lunar leaps and bounds." 

"Laszlo Krasznahorkai is a visionary writer of extraordinary intensity and vocal range who captures the texture of present day existence in scenes that are terrifying, strange, appallingly comic, and often shatteringly beautiful."  -  Marina Warner, 2015 International Man Booker Prize Judge

László Krasznahorkai, an innovative Hungarian writer, was announced as the sixth Man Booker International Prize winner in 2015. Krasznahorkai chose to split the prize between two translators; George Szirtes (who translated Satantango and The Melancholy of Resistance) and Ottilie Mulzet (who translated Seiobo There Below). Krasznahorkai is known for critically difficult and demanding novels, often labelled as postmodern, with dystopian and bleak melancholic themes.