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War & War (Paperback)
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War & War (Paperback)
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List price R513
Loot Price R427
Discovery Miles 4 270
You Save R86 (17%)
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A novel of awesome beauty and power by the Hungarian master, Laszlo
Krasznahorkai. Winner of a 2005 PEN Translation Fund Award.
"War and War," Laszlo Krasznahorkai's second novel in English from
New Directions, begins at a point of danger: on a dark train
platform Korim is on the verge of being attacked by thuggish
teenagers and robbed; and from here, we are carried along by the
insistent voice of this nervous clerk. Desperate, at times almost
mad, but also keenly empathic, Korim has discovered in a small
Hungarian town's archives an antique manuscript of startling
beauty: it narrates the epic tale of brothers-in-arms struggling to
return home from a disastrous war. Korim is determined to do away
with himself, but before he can commit suicide, he feels he must
escape to New York with the precious manuscript and commit it to
eternity by typing it all on the world-wide web. Following Korim
with obsessive realism through the streets of New York (from his
landing in a Bowery flophouse to his moving far uptown with a mad
interpreter), "War and War" relates his encounters with a
fascinating range of humanity, a world torn between viciousness and
mysterious beauty. Following the eight chapters of "War and War" is
a short "prequel acting as a sequel," "Isaiah," which brings us to
a dark bar, years before in Hungary, where Korim rants against the
world and threatens suicide. Written like nothing else (turning
single sentences into chapters), "War and War" affirms W. G.
Sebald's comment that Krasznahorkai's prose "far surpasses all the
lesser concerns of contemporary writing."
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