Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The World Goes on

The World Goes on

Krasznahorkai, László
Mulzet, Ottilie
Szirtes, George

Paperback

General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 0811237516
ISBN13: 9780811237512
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: Apr 23 2024
Pages: 311
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.85 Width: 5.33 Depth: 7.99
Language: English
In The World Goes On, a narrator first speaks directly, then narrates a number of unforgettable stories, and then bids farewell (here I would leave this earth and these stars, because I would take nothing with me). As László 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... A Hungarian interpreter obsessed with waterfalls, at the edge of the abyss in his own mind, wanders the chaotic streets of Shanghai. A traveler, reeling from the sights and sounds of Varanasi, India, encounters a giant of a man on the banks of the Ganges ranting on and on about the nature of a single drop of water. A child laborer in a Portuguese marble quarry wanders off from work one day into a surreal realm utterly alien from his daily toils. 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.

1 different editions

Also available

Also from

Krasznahorkai, László

View All

Also in

Literary Fiction

View All