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Title	:	The Melancholy of Resistance
Author	:	László Krasznahorkai
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 314 pages
Published	:	June 17th 2002 by New Directions (first published 1989)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Hungary. European Literature. Hungarian Literature. Novels. Literature

The Melancholy of Resistance

László Krasznahorkai

Paperback | Pages: 314 pages

Rating: 4.16 | 2606 Users | 332 Reviews

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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 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 rumours. 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, The Melancholy of Resistance, 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 The Guardian, "lifts the reader along in lunar leaps and bounds."

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Original Title:	Az ellenállás melankóliája
ISBN:	0811215040 (ISBN13: 9780811215046)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	János Valuska, György Eszter, Tünde Eszter
Setting:	Hungary
Literary Awards:	Angelus Nominee (2008), Europese Literatuurprijs Nominee (2017)

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There are moments of astounding beauty in this book. My personal favourite is when Valuska,the book's holy fool, demonstrates the motion of the planets around the sun in the kind of bar only found only in Hungarian and Slav lit, 'the penny Riesling in their scratch-marked glasses...'. Dark bars they are, where tables rock on their uneven legs and pickling spices permeate the walls. I think I read this stuff for those bars. Valuska demonstrates the motion of the planets with his fellow drinkers,

László Krasznahorkai, I am nervous. Isn't that ridiculous? I'm actually nervous about writing a review for your novel The Melancholy of Resistance because I just finished scanning through the (few) other reviews on this site and saw that they were mostly perfunctory in their praise, somewhat soulless and academic, and insufficiently rapturous. This is an amazing book! Don't they understand that? When you've heard the word of god (and here it is), you just don't dither around with propriety or

Luckily I found this book in a local bookstore the day after I saw Bela Tarr's film Werckmeister Harmonies. The author and Tarr have a very close relationship and have collaborated on adapting Krazhnahorkai's novels into films, but I think this is the only novel that has been translated into English.As with other books, I read this so feverishly (and it begs to be read feverishly as the whole book is one long paragraph, and some sentences go on for pages) that I can't give any kind of detached

This not your laid back summer beach read. Dont even think of attempting this on a train, a plane, a park, a doctors office or anywhere where you wont be able to focus completely and fall face first into this absurd Hungarian nightmare.With about three paragraphs in the entire 300 pages, and just a smattering of sentences (Im exaggerating, but not by much), Melancholy seemed to gush out of Krasznahorkai like a drunken folklore told over a campfire in the darkest pit of a forest.The first seventy

I open the covers and am on a train. Noisy and disordered, Mrs. Plauf, a conventional middle class woman returning from her yearly sojourn to visit her disabled and housebound sisters, sits among peasants. The order of the country has been disrupted and trains no longer run on schedule. The class system is blurred and separation of class distinction disintegrating.. She thinks only of returning to her apartment and all the objects within providing her comfort. They are all there and she relaxes

I read The Melancholy of Resistance back in early October and it still haunts me months later. Krasznahorkai creates a dark allegorical novel that is saturated with dread and overflowing with malice as he depicts a city overrun by strange happenings and menacing mobs of strangers during the icy winter. Even if you were to read this on a warms summers day, he would make you feel as if the world outside your window was frozen over and treacherous. This novel deserves a more wide-spread critical

Ne znam odakle da počnem, sem da dva Krasnahorkaijeva romana u kratkom periodu nisu dobra ideja sem ako ne želite potvrdu kosmosa da svi treba da se obesimo.Svakako je jasno da je Krasnahorkai, kako sam negde pročitala, pokušao da 'popravi' ono čime je bio nezadovoljan u Satantangu. Meni se čini, pak, da je prvo trebalo prevesti Satantango, pa onda Melanholiju otpora, ne samo zbog hronološkog sleda, već i zbog toga što, uprkos prevodiočevom stavu, mislim da je Satantango tehnički uspeliji roman.