The Melancholy of Resistance

by László Krasznahorkai

Book Overview

A powerful, surreal novel, in the tradition of Gogol, about the chaotic events surrounding the arrival of a circus in a small Hungarian town. The Melancholy of Resistance, L szl Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in a small Hungarian town. A circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the largest whale in the world, arrives in the dead of winter, prompting bizarre rumors. Word spreads that the circus...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811215040
• ISBN13: 9780811215046
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 7.8"