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László Krasznahorkai The World Goes On (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- World Goes on
- Publication Name
- The World Goes On
- Title
- The World Goes On
- Translator
- George Szirtes
- Contributor
- George Szirtes (Translated by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0811237516
- EAN
- 9780811237512
- ISBN
- 9780811237512
- Edition
- Third Edition
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Genre
- Foreign Language Study, Fiction
- Release Date
- 02/04/2024
- Release Year
- 2024
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Item Length
- 8in
- Item Width
- 5.3in
- Item Weight
- 10.2 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2024
- Topic
- Miscellaneous, Short Stories (Single Author), Visionary & Metaphysical
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In The World Goes On, 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 The New York Review of Books, "is that he has come up with his own original forms--there is nothing else like it in contemporary literature."
Product Identifiers
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10
0811237516
ISBN-13
9780811237512
eBay Product ID (ePID)
20061614833
Product Key Features
Book Title
World Goes on
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Miscellaneous, Short Stories (Single Author), Visionary & Metaphysical
Publication Year
2024
Genre
Foreign Language Study, Fiction
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.3in
Item Weight
10.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ph3281.K8866a2 2024
Edition Number
3
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One begins a Krasznahorkai story like a free diver, with a deep inhalation before plunging in. His fiction is not faithful to literary convention, but it is faithful to life. The extended periods of quiescence, the isolated glimpses of the sublime, the portentous images signifying nothing, the mundane images signifying everything, the arbitrary eruptions of horror and beauty--though Krasznahorkai's technique relies upon artifice, the result is an honest, courageous, often harrowing portrait of a civilization in drift and decline, Our current condition of displacement, says László Krasznahorkai in The World Goes On, cannot be told; only with great difficulty can language be budged out of endless spirallings of frustration. But then the collection goes on to offer stories of journeys that, whether undertaken or thwarted, arrive at transcendence. At the end there is only one way to go, in what has to be the most powerful page written so far this century.
Dewey Decimal
894.51134
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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