Only few persons has a grasp of these forces and uses that knowledge in a power play that leaves no room for being human - you either play or are being played. Susan Sontag compared this mystifying, inspiring, tiring, hilarious, disturbing book as worthy of comparisons to Gogol and Melville. The writing is difficult throughout as it consists of one very long sentence followed by another and another and so on for the entire book. Copyright LibraryThing and/or members of LibraryThing, authors, publishers, libraries, cover designers, Amazon, Bol, Bruna, etc. È uno stile molto strano quello dello scrittore ma ha un pregio, che forse riassume anche il romanzo stesso e le sensazioni che si hanno alla sua conclusione: è avvolgente, nel senso più fisico del termine, ti avvolge ai personaggi e alle loro motivazioni, che sono anche un po' le tue (o forse lo diventano nel momento in cui entri nei pensieri di ciascuno di loro?). Our heroes , Valuska and Eszter, reminiscent of those famous literary tramps, Vladimir and Estragon, move through the surreal landscape of this small Hungarian town.There are many startling scenes alleviated with scenes of humor. Recommended with reservations. Skimming seeming and appropriate pace for a book written with no paragraph breaks and few chapters. We long for the joys of narrative pleasure. You have to enjoy an author who has a huge stuffed whale, apologies to Melville, as a plot device! No thought of lingering just a romp to the end. One of the most important books for the 21st century. Click on a thumbnail to go to Google Books. In the two days which occupy much of the book, the author watches rats devour bread, ponders garbage, deconstructs the well-tempered scale, and portrays a bar game where drunks play the sun, earth, and moon in eclipse, all while somehow never losing his concern with what will happen to these hapless people. “An inexorable, visionary book by the contemporary Hungarian master of apocalypse who inspires comparison with Gogol and Melville.”, It's all too rare...we have the opportunity to encounter a voice as knowing, sympathetic, dark and beguiling as Krasznahorkai's. THE MELANCHOLY OF RESISTANCE by László Krasznahorkai & translated by George Szirtes ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 27, 2000 A first English translation of a … There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Thus I file this one. This is a great novel. The composition of the story is itself exemplifying the entropic decay because in the end the story 'dies' and leaves the reader in a - yes - melancholy mood. the commonality of the novels is less of character and event than of recurring themes and patterns within hungarian places, dismal towns, aimless walking, the repetition of a name—here the name of a location, wenckheim avenue is the title character in Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming—train rides, and an old man of one of the professional or artistic classes who withdraws from life. Yes, it's still the same obvious puzzle that it has always been. A circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the largest whale in the world, arrives in the dead of winter, prompting bizarre rumours. The Melancholy of Resistance is a demanding book, and a pessimistic one, too, since it seems to take repeated ironic shots at the possibility of revolution…The pleasure of the book, and a kind of resistance, as well, flows from its Hypnotically written, but very dense, so you feel like you are diving deep and drowning at the same time. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. ", About half way through there are lengthy passages of great intelligence that are beautiful to read and reread, Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2016. There is only a loose relation between book and film, but both are great. I don't want to give away the fun so I'll just say that in a trice the story turns from an almost lighthearted tale to one in which we have to wonder if we aren't heading for a meeting with our maker, or ultimate darkness, or enlightenment. Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2017. There are moments of astounding beauty in this book. There is something relentless about The Melancholy of Resistance, both in its neverending paragraphs and in its slow yet inevitable progress towards tragedy. . Then at about page 200 we hit this turgid wall of philosophical musing, by the musicologist again, and it stops us dead; and try as we might, we cannot, even after successive tries, move beyond it. The basic story of anarchy in a Hungarian city which is capitalized upon by a brutal, power hungry, opportunistic woman, is told in a Kafkaesque and fairly abstruse manner. "We hardly realize the extraordinary events to which we are witness", Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2017, After reading The Last Wolf and this, I want to read and reread everything by Krasznahorkai that I can find. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, includes free international wireless delivery via, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. --This text refers to the. This author is truly amazing -an awesome piece of literature! Did I learn anything about Hungary? Very strange. Good character portrayals, in a sort of constant ironic style. Rather it is the type of novel that you will not be able to get out of your consciousness once you finish. The city itself is never named. Does this book contain quality or formatting issues? On the heels of László Krasznahorkai’s victory this year for winning the Best Translated Book Award (BTBA) two years in a row, ever astute critic Scott Esposito. Mind you, it's not easy to read. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. But it is the tension between the magical and the mediocre which lies at the heart of this book and is well displayed in a description of sleep: The washbasin no longer existed, neither did the untouched glass of bicarbonate; the wardrobe, the clothes-rack and the stained towel thrown into a corner all disappeared; floor, walls and ceiling had no more meaning for her; she herself was nothing but an object among objects, one of millions of defenceless sleepers, a body, like others, returning each night to those melancholy gates of being which may be entered but once and then with no prospect of return. The Melancholy of Resistance (New Directions Paperbook) - Kindle edition by Krasznahorkai, László, George Szirtes. 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.'
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