The World Goes On

László Krasznahorkai (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

311 Seiten

2024 | Third Edition
New Directions Publishing Corporation (Verlag)
978-0-8112-3751-2 (ISBN)

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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.”

WINNER OF THE 2025 NOBEL PRIZE The winner of the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature and the 2015 Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement, László Krasznahorkai was born in Gyula, Hungary. Ottilie Mulzet is a literary critic and translator of Hungarian. Mulzet received the National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2019 for her translation of László Krasznahorkai's Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming and the Best Translated Book Award in 2014 for her translation of Krasznahorkai’s Seiobo There Below. George Szirtes (b. 1948) is an award-winning poet and translator who settled in England after his family fled the Hungarian Uprising of 1956. His translation of Satantango by László Krasznahorkai won the 2013 Best Translated Book Award.

Erscheinungsdatum	05.04.2024
Übersetzer	Ottilie Mulzet, George Szirtes
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	135 x 203 mm
Gewicht	295 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Historische Romane
	Literatur ► Märchen / Sagen
	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
ISBN-10	0-8112-3751-6 / 0811237516
ISBN-13	978-0-8112-3751-2 / 9780811237512
Zustand	Neuware