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Country Hungary Publisher Magvető Könyvkiadó Published in English 2000 ISBN 9788009000689 | 4.2/5 Goodreads Language Hungarian Publication date 1989 Originally published 1989 Page count 385 Translator George Szirtes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Original title Az ellenállás melankóliája Adaptations Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) Similar László Krasznahorkai books, Other books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The melancholy of resistance
The Melancholy of Resistance (Hungarian: Az ellenállás melankóliája) is a 1989 novel by the Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai. The narrative is set in a restless town where a mysterious circus, which exhibits a whale and nothing else, contributes to an apocalyptic atmosphere. The novel was adapted into the 2000 film Werckmeister Harmonies, directed by Béla Tarr.
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Melancholia sprzeciwu the melancholy of resistance
Reception
James Wood of The New Yorker wrote in 2011: "The Melancholy of Resistance is a comedy of apocalypse, a book about a God that not only failed but didn't even turn up for the exam. Less manic, less entrapped than War and War, it has elements of a traditional social novel." Wood continued: "The Melancholy of Resistance is a demanding book, and a pessimistic one, too, since it seems to take repeated ironic shots at the possibility of revolution. ... The pleasure of the book, and a kind of resistance, as well, flows from its extraordinary, stretched, self-recoiling sentences, which are marvels of a loosely punctuated stream of consciousness."