Bøger af LASZLO KRASZNAHORKAI

En lille landsby i det sydøstlige Ungarn hjemsøges af et cirkus der medbringer en kæmpe blåhval på en blokvogn. Med cirkustruppens ankomst begynder byen at forandre sig og et faretruende oprør tager sin begyndelse.Uddrag fra bogen:”Hverdagenes vante orden var afløst af et stadig mere omsiggribende kaos, fremtiden syntes uforudsigelig, fortiden uigenkaldelig og alle dagliglivets foreteelser så vilkårlige, at man for så vidt kunne forestille sig hvad som helst, for den sags skyld også at ikke en eneste dør i verden længere kunne åbnes, eller at hveden groede med akset nedad, eftersom det kun var symptomerne på den destruktive desintegration, der var mærkbare, mens årsagerne blev ved med at være uoverskuelige og abstrakte, følgelig var der intet andet at gøre, end hårdnakket at gribe til hvad som helst, blot det var håndgribeligt.”László Krasznahorkai er født i Gyula i Ungarn i 1954. Han er en af Ungarns vigtigste samtidsforfattere og er blevet tildelt en række litterære priser i Ungarn, Tyskland og USA for sine romaner og noveller. I 2015 modtog han The Man Booker International Prize. Sammen med landsmændene Imre Kertész, Peter Nadas og Peter Esterházy udgør han en generation af forfattere, der alle har haft deres gennembrud i tiden efter Anden Verdenskrig. Hans stil bliver ofte sammenlignet med forfattere som W.G. Sebald og Thomas Bernhard, mens hans eksistentielle tematikker kan sammenstilles med Kafkas, Gogols eller Dostojevskijs. ”Modstandens melankoli” er den første af hans romaner, der er oversat til dansk.

I et lille landbrugskollektiv i en udørk af en landsby melder to gådefulde personer deres ankomst. Kollektivets beboere stiller store forventninger til de to mystiske fremmede og det bliver svært at afgøre om der er tale om profet og discipel, eller om det er selve djævlen og hans lærling der har meldt sin ankomst.László Krasznahorkais debutroman fra 1985 Satantango er en almengyldig fortælling om fascination og forfald i en totalitær verden. I en særegen stil, med alenlange sætningskonstruktioner, indkapsler romanen et dystopisk og humoristisk-grotesk univers.László Krasznahorkai er født i Gyula i Ungarn i 1954. Han er en af Ungarns vigtigste samtidsforfattere og er blevet tildelt en række litterære priser i Ungarn, Tyskland og USA for sine romaner og noveller. Sammen med landsmændene Imre Kertész, Peter Nadas og Peter Esterházy udgør han en generation af forfattere, der alle har haft deres gennembrud i tiden efter Anden Verdenskrig. Hans stil bliver ofte sammenlignet med forfattere som W.G. Sebald og Thomas Bernhard, mens hans eksistentielle tematikker kan sammenstilles med Kafkas, Gogols eller Dostojevskijs. Krasznahorkai modtog i 2015 The Man Booker International Prize. Forlaget Sisyfos har i 2015 udgivet Krasznahorkais Modstandens melankoli der oprindeligt udkom i 1989.

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A powerful, surreal novel, in the tradition of Gogol, about the chaotic events surrounding the arrival of a circus in a small Hungarian town. The Melancholy of Resistance, László Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in a small Hungarian town. A circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the largest whale in the world, arrives in the dead of winter, prompting bizarre rumors. Word spreads that the circus folk have a sinister purpose in mind, and the frightened citizens cling to any manifestation of order they can find music, cosmology, fascism. The novel's characters are unforgettable: the evil Mrs. Eszter, plotting her takeover of the town; her weakling husband; and Valuska, our hapless hero with his head in the clouds, who is the tender center of the book, the only pure and noble soul to be found. Compact, powerful and intense, The Melancholy of Resistance, as its enormously gifted translator George Szirtes puts it, "is a slow lava flow of narrative, a vast black river of type." And yet, miraculously, the novel, in the words of The Guardian, "lifts the reader along in lunar leaps and bounds."

En danderet professor rejser til den øde spanske provins Extremadura, efter han bliver hyret til at skrive noget om egnen. Her falder han over den mystiske historie om de sidste ulve i området, og han beslutter sig for at undersøge sagen nærmere. Det bliver en rejse gennem det golde landskab fyldt med sidespring, misforståelser, fabuleren og ikke mindst masser af ulve. Men hvilken en af dem er den sidste?László Krasznahorkai (f. 1954 i Gyula) er en af Ungarns vigtigste samtidsforfattere, og hans kompromisløse stil og excentriske karakterer har gjort ham kendt og anerkendt både indenfor og udenfor landets grænser. Krasznahorkais værker, der er præget af en blanding af eksistentialisme, nihilisme og sort humor, er i dag oversat til en stor del af verdens sprog, og han har gennem tiden modtaget utallige priser, herunder The Man Booker International Prize i 2015. Forlaget Sisyfos har tidligere udgivet Krasznahorkais romaner ’Modstandens melankoli’ (1989) og ’Satantango’ (1985).

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."

A powerful, surreal novel, in the tradition of Gogol, about the chaotic events surrounding the arrival of a circus in a small Hungarian town. The Melancholy of Resistance, László Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in a small Hungarian town. A circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the largest whale in the world, arrives in the dead of winter, prompting bizarre rumors. Word spreads that the circus folk have a sinister purpose in mind, and the frightened citizens cling to any manifestation of order they can find music, cosmology, fascism. The novel's characters are unforgettable: the evil Mrs. Eszter, plotting her takeover of the town; her weakling husband; and Valuska, our hapless hero with his head in the clouds, who is the tender center of the book, the only pure and noble soul to be found. Compact, powerful and intense, The Melancholy of Resistance, as its enormously gifted translator George Szirtes puts it, "is a slow lava flow of narrative, a vast black river of type." And yet, miraculously, the novel, in the words of The Guardian, "lifts the reader along in lunar leaps and bounds."

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Seiobo - a Japanese goddess - has a peach tree in her garden that blossoms once every three thousand years: its fruit brings immortality. In Seiobo There Below, we see her returning again and again to mortal realms, searching for a glimpse of perfection. Beauty, in Krasznahorkai's new novel, reflects, however fleetingly, the sacred - even if we are mostly unable to bear it. Seiobo shows us an ancient Buddha being restored; Perugino managing his workshop; a Japanese Noh actor rehearsing; a fanatic of Baroque music lecturing a handful of old villagers; tourists intruding into the rituals of Japan's most sacred shrine; a heron hunting.... Over these scenes and more - structured by the Fibonacci sequence - Seiobo hovers, watching it all.

A novel of awesome beauty and power by the Hungarian master, Laszla Krasznahorkai. Winner of a 2005 PEN Translation Fund Award.War and War, Laszla Krasznahorkai's second novel in English from New Directions, begins at a point of danger: on a dark train platform Korim is on the verge of being attacked by thuggish teenagers and robbed; and from here, we are carried along by the insistent voice of this nervous clerk. Desperate, at times almost mad, but also keenly empathic, Korim has discovered in a small Hungarian town's archives an antique manuscript of startling beauty: it narrates the epic tale of brothers-in-arms struggling to return home from a disastrous war. Korim is determined to do away with himself, but before he can commit suicide, he feels he must escape to New York with the precious manuscript and commit it to eternity by typing it all on the world-wide web. Following Korim with obsessive realism through the streets of New York (from his landing in a Bowery flophouse to his moving far uptown with a mad interpreter), War and War relates his encounters with a fascinating range of humanity, a world torn between viciousness and mysterious beauty. Following the eight chapters of War and War is a short "prequel acting as a sequel," "Isaiah," which brings us to a dark bar, years before in Hungary, where Korim rants against the world and threatens suicide. Written like nothing else (turning single sentences into chapters), War and War affirms W. G. Sebald's comment that Krasznahorkai's prose "far surpasses all the lesser concerns of contemporary writing."