The Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo Krasznahorkai\'s magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in an insignificant Hungarian town.
And yet, miraculously, the novel, in the words of The Guardian, lifts the reader along in lunar leaps and bounds..
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.
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 center of the book, the only pure and noble soul to be found.
The novel\'s characters are unforgettable: the evil Mrs.
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
