The Melancholy of Resistance

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by László Krasznahorkai, translated from the Hungarian by George Szirtes

When a mysterious traveling circus arrives in the dead of winter in a sleepy Hungarian town, word starts to spread that the circus folk may have impure and sinister intentions. A surreal, intense, and cinematic novel, The Melancholy of Resistance inspired Béla Tarr's masterpiece of Hungarian cinema Werckmeister Harmonies and was the recipient of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature. 

New Directions Publishing, 1989, Paperback, 314 pages