{"product_id":"the-world-goes-on","title":"The World Goes on","description":"In \u003cem\u003eThe World Goes On\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 \u003cem\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, \"is that he has come up with his own original forms--there is nothing else like it in contemporary literature.\"","brand":"László Krasznahorkai","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52103049937197,"sku":"BS-8XD-237512","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/9780811237512-HD.jpg?v=1780251879","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-world-goes-on","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}