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The World Goes On
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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The World Goes On
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Laszlo Krasznahorkai
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Translated by Ottilie Mulzet
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Translated by George Szirtes
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Translated by John Batki
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:320 | Dimensions(mm): Height 200,Width 130 |
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Category/Genre | Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781788160124
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Classifications | Dewey:894.51134 |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Profile Books Ltd
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Imprint |
Tuskar Rock
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Publication Date |
31 May 2018 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Short-listed for The Man Booker International Prize 2018 A Hungarian interpreter obsessed with waterfalls, at the edge of the abyss in his own mind, wanders the chaotic streets of Shanghai. A traveller, reeling from the sights and sounds of Varanasi, encounters a giant of a man on the banks of the Ganges ranting on the nature of a single drop of water. A child labourer in a Portuguese marble quarry wanders off from work one day into a surreal realm utterly alien from his daily toils. In The World Goes On, a narrator first speaks directly, tells twenty-one unforgettable stories, then bids farewell ('for here I would leave this earth and these stars, because I would take nothing with me'). As Laszlo 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...' The World Goes On is another masterpiece by the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. '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.'
Author Biography
Laszlo Krasznahorkai was born in Gyula, Hungary, in 1954. He is the author of The Last Wolf, War & War, The Melancholy of Resistance, Seiobo There Below, all published by Serpent's Tail, and several other works. He has won numerous prizes, including the International Man Booker Prize 2015, 2013 Best Translated Book Award, and 1993 Best Book of the Year Award in Germany.
ReviewsOne of the great inventors of new forms in contemporary literature ... there is nothing else like it in contemporary literature -- Adam Thirwell * New York Review of Books * This collection - a masterpiece of invention, utterly different from everything else - is hugely unsettling and affecting; to meet Krasznahorkai's characters, to read his breathless, twisting sentences, is to feel altered. * Guardian * 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. -- Paul Griffiths * TLS Books of the Year *
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