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product_id: 14247909
title: "The Melancholy of Resistance Paperback – June 17, 2002"
brand: "laszlo krasznahorkaigeorge szirtes"
price: "₨13347"
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# The Melancholy of Resistance Paperback – June 17, 2002

**Brand:** laszlo krasznahorkaigeorge szirtes
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- **What is this?** The Melancholy of Resistance Paperback – June 17, 2002 by laszlo krasznahorkaigeorge szirtes
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Watch the film, read the book, repeat as often as necessary...
*by G***L on October 27, 2007*

This is the book that is the basis for Bela Tarr's brilliant film Werckmeister Harmonies. The script for the film was co-written by the author, Laszlo Krasznahorkai, and the book is the equal of the film, and also compliments it. Laszlo and Bela Tarr have a very unique relationship, in that all of Bela's later films were co-written by Laszlo, and some were based on his novels (like the epic Satantango). This book is typed as if it were one epic sentence (with a few breaths here and there), conjuring up language and a scope worthy of Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy (2 of my favorite writers). There is an amazing sense of dread and drifting in the cosmos contained in these pages (and in the film as well). In most modern novels, you don't really get that sense of the epic and the scope associated with works like this. Laszlo Krasznahorkai is one of my favorite modern authors, and I hope that more of his work becomes available here.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Powerful, mysterious, unsettling
*by P***Y on April 7, 2013*

"The Melancholy of Resistance" is a powerful, haunting novel that leaves the reader with more questions than it does answers.Set in a small, crumbling Hungarian town, the action centers around the arrival of a travelling circus and the intimidatingly giant whale that the circus carries in tow. For the townspeople, the circus brings nothing but doubt and confusion. Is its arrival, coupled with the physical decay of the town (water tower collapses, lights mysteriously extinguish), a sign of the Apocalypse? Is the Prince, a deformed yet magnetic dwarf who travels with the circus, part of the attraction or is he, as some attest, urging the people to revolt?Constructed in a bold style that adds to the overall weight of the novel (no line breaks- the book is one long paragraph with a handful of chapter breaks), "The Melancholy of Resistance" repulses on the surface but draws the reader in with its eloquent writing and slightly surrealistic tone. The characters are vibrant and alive- Valuska, the town idiot who may be the moral center of the novel; Mr. Eszter, the eccentric recluse obsessed with musical purity; and Mrs. Eszter, the power-seeking socialite who isn't above using her sexuality to achieve her goals. As these three tackle the existential meaning of the circus' arrival, events spiral out-of-control and everything they think is real is cast into doubt.Laszlo Krasznahorkai's first novel, this book will linger in the readers' conscious long after the last page is read.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ About half way through there are lengthy passages of great intelligence that are beautiful to read and reread
*by J***X on February 16, 2016*

This is a strange and interesting book. The writing is difficult throughout as it consists of one very long sentence followed by another and another and so on for the entire book. It creates the desired effect, I think, which is one of dreamlike intensity. About half way through there are lengthy passages of great intelligence that are beautiful to read and reread. The ending is effective and speaks its message clearly and with force. Not a book for everyone, but definitely worth reading. I liked it a lot.

## Frequently Bought Together

- The Melancholy of Resistance (New Directions Paperbook)
- Satantango
- War & War (New Directions Paperbook)

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