The Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo Krasznahorkai's magisterial,
surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in an
insignificant Hungarian town. 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. 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. 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 center 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".
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