{"product_id":"the-melancholy-of-resistance","title":"The Melancholy of Resistance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laszlo Krasznahorkai\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTitle:\u003c\/b\u003e The Melancholy of Resistance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 314\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 2000-11-01\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Melancholy of Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e, Laszlo 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 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Melancholy of Resistance\u003c\/i\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 \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \"lifts the reader along in lunar leaps and bounds.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811214506\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"László Krasznahorkai","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53355155554611,"sku":"9780811214506","price":27.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0949\/3636\/7411\/files\/9780811214506.jpg?v=1778838985","url":"https:\/\/bookabaloo.com\/products\/the-melancholy-of-resistance","provider":"Bookabaloo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}