The Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo Krasznahorkai\'s magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in an insignificant Hungarian town.
The novel\'s chara.
Word spreads that the circus folk have a sinister purpose at hand, and the frightened citizens cling to any manifestation of order they can find -- music, cosmology, fascism.
A circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the largest whale in the world, arrives in the midst of a terminal frost, prompting bizarre rumors.
The Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo Krasznahorkai\'s magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in an insignificant Hungarian town