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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, \u003cem\u003eThe Melancholy of Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e, \"lifts the reader along in lunar leaps and bounds.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101522039007,"sku":"9780811215046","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Ukl3NzVTY3hhc09zNlNxUjdNKzdQQT09.webp?v=1781071651"},{"product_id":"the-world-goes-on-paperback","title":"The World Goes on - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe World Goes On\u003c\/em\u003e, a narrator first speaks directly, then narrates a number of unforgettable stories, and then bids farewell (\"here I would leave this earth and these stars, because I would take nothing with me\"). As László Krasznahorkai 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...\" A Hungarian interpreter obsessed with waterfalls, at the edge of the abyss in his own mind, wanders the chaotic streets of Shanghai. A traveler, reeling from the sights and sounds of Varanasi, India, encounters a giant of a man on the banks of the Ganges ranting on and on about the nature of a single drop of water. A child laborer in a Portuguese marble quarry wanders off from work one day into a surreal realm utterly alien from his daily toils. \"The excitement of his writing,\" Adam Thirlwell proclaimed in \u003cem\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, \"is that he has come up with his own original forms--there is nothing else like it in contemporary literature.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101613101279,"sku":"9780811237512","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/6GnORn5BHU9780811237512.webp?v=1781071826"},{"product_id":"chasing-homer-paperback","title":"Chasing Homer - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this thrilling chase narrative, a hunted being escapes certain death at breakneck speed--careening through Europe, heading blindly South. Faster and faster, escaping the assassins, our protagonist flies forward, blending into crowds, adjusting to terrains, hopping on and off ferries, always desperately trying to stay a step ahead of certain death: the past did not exist, only what was current existed--a prisoner of the instant, rushing into this instant, an instant that had no continuation...\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKrasznahorkai--celebrated for the exhilarating energy of his prose--outdoes himself in \u003cem\u003eChasing Homer\u003c\/em\u003e. And this unique collaboration boasts beautiful full-color paintings by Max Neumann and--reaching out of the book proper--the wildly percussive music of Szilveszter Miklós scored for each chapter (to be accessed by the reader via QR codes).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102211936479,"sku":"9780811240901","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/BETg7jE7up9780811240901.webp?v=1781079150"},{"product_id":"baron-wenckheims-homecoming-paperback","title":"Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eSet in contemporary times, \u003cem\u003eBaron Wenckheim's Homecoming\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of a Prince Myshkin-like figure, Baron Béla Wenckheim, who returns at the end of his life to his provincial Hungarian hometown. Having escaped from his many casino debts in Buenos Aires, where he was living in exile, he longs to be reunited with his high-school sweetheart Marika. Confusions abound, and what follows is an endless storm of gossip, con men, and local politicians, vividly evoking the small town's alternately drab and absurd existence. All along, the Professor--a world-famous natural scientist who studies mosses and inhabits a bizarre Zen-like shack in a desolate area outside of town?offers long rants and disquisitions on his attempts to immunize himself from thought. Spectacular actions are staged as death and the abyss loom over the unsuspecting townfolk.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102278750431,"sku":"9780811239707","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/TPk-GF6Zs19780811239707.webp?v=1781079270"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/laszlo-krasznahorkai.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}