In The World Goes On , a narrator first speaks directly, then tells eleven unforgettable stories, and then bids farewell (for here I would leave this earth and these stars, because I would take nothing with me).
The excitement of his writing, Adam Thirwell proclaimed in the New York Review of Books , is that he has come up with this own original forms--there is nothing else like it in contemporary literature..
The World Goes On is another amazing masterpiece by the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize.
A child laborer in a Portuguese marble quarry wanders off from work one day into a surreal realm utterly alien from his daily toils.
A traveler, reeling from the sights and sounds of Varanasi, encounters a giant of a man on the banks of the Ganges ranting on the nature of a single drop of water.
A Hungarian interpreter obsessed with waterfalls, at the edge of the abyss in his own mind, wanders the chaotic streets of Shanghai.
As László Krasznahoraki himself explains: Each text is about drawing our attention away from this world, speeding our body toward annihilation, and immersing ourselves in a current of thought or a narrative...
In The World Goes On , a narrator first speaks directly, then tells eleven unforgettable stories, and then bids farewell (for here I would leave this earth and these stars, because I would take nothing with me)
