The Melancholy of Resistance - Laszlo Krasznahorkai

The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai, translated by George Szirtes / ISBN 9780811215046 / 320-page paperback from New Directions / one of my favorite novels, but buyer-beware: there aren't any paragraph breaks... *** From the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize 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, László 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 folk have a sinister purpose in mind, 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 weakli