{"product_id":"the-melancholy-of-resistance-hardcover","title":"The Melancholy of Resistance - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLászló Krasznahorkai\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGeorge Szirtes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGeorge Szirtes\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA powerful, surreal novel, in the tradition of Gogol, about the chaotic events surrounding the arrival of a circus in a small Hungarian town. \u003cem\u003eThe Melancholy of Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 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, \u003cem\u003eThe Melancholy of Resistance\u003c\/em\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 \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e, \"lifts the reader along in lunar leaps and bounds.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 322\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.06 x 8.32 x 5.66 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 10, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51987683901741,"sku":"9780811214506","price":30.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/RysvRkxrcGd6OE9jQlZNaGJrNytGdz09.webp?v=1776183466","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-melancholy-of-resistance-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}