The World Goes On

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The World Goes On

A magnificent new collection of stories by â€œthe contemporary Hungarian master of apocalypseâ€ (Susan Sontag)

In The World Goes On, a narrator first speaks directly, then tells eleven unforgettable stories, and then bids farewell (â€œfor here I would leave this earth and these stars, because I would take nothing with meâ€). As LÃ¡szlÃ³ Krasznahoraki himself explains: â€œEach 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 narrativeâ€¦â€ 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, encounters a giant of a man on the banks of the Ganges ranting on 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 World Goes On is another amazing masterpiece by the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. â€œThe excitement of his writing,â€ Adam Thirwell proclaimed in the New York Review of Books, â€œis that he has come up with this own original formsâ€”there is nothing else like it in contemporary literature.â€
Country USA
Manufacturer New Directions
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2017-12-05
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	New Directions
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2017-12-05
Format	Kindle eBook

The World Goes On

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