3160526The World Goes On (Third Edition)https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-world-goes-on-9780811224208/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2649073/51e74406-1c15-4869-8343-8a2bb25ae39c.jpg?v=638384264825870000258359MXNNew DirectionsInStock/Ebooks/Now in paperback, a transcendent and wide-ranging collection of stories by László Krasznahorkai: a visionary writer of extraordinary intensity and vocal range who captures the texture of present-day existence in scenes that are terrifying, strange, appallingly comic, and often shatteringly beautiful.Marina Warner, announcing the Booker International PrizeIn 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 formsthere is nothing else like it in contemporary literature....3097070The World Goes On (Third Edition)258359https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-world-goes-on-9780811224208/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2649073/51e74406-1c15-4869-8343-8a2bb25ae39c.jpg?v=638384264825870000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20249780811224208_W3siaWQiOiIxNDhhNzVlZS01MTg4LTQ5YjctYWUwYS05N2QxMWRkMWU2YTciLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjM0OSwiZGlzY291bnQiOjk3LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjI1MiwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjQtMTItMDFUMDA6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9780811224208_A magnificent new collection of stories by the contemporary Hungarian master of apocalypse (Susan Sontag)In The World Goes On, a narrator first speaks directly, then tells eleven unforgettable stories, and then bids farewell (for here I would leave this earth and these stars, because I would take nothing with me). As László Krasznahoraki 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, 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. The excitement of his writing, Adam Thirwell proclaimed in the New York Review of Books, is that he has come up with this own original formsthere is nothing else like it in contemporary literature....(*_*)9780811224208_Now in paperback, a transcendent and wide-ranging collection of stories by László Krasznahorkai: a visionary writer of extraordinary intensity and vocal range who captures the texture of present-day existence in scenes that are terrifying, strange, appallingly comic, and often shatteringly beautiful.Marina Warner, announcing the Booker International PrizeIn 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 formsthere is nothing else like it in contemporary literature....9780811224208_New Directionslibro_electonico_c6e1fc97-0fe3-3753-99f0-ee1d91b23062_9780811224208;9780811224208_9780811224208László KrasznahorkaiInglésMéxico2024-04-02T00:00:00+00:00https://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/wwnorton-epub-4af4e9ea-316b-4b88-832c-f8a178649508.epub2024-04-02T00:00:00+00:00New Directions