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
War & War, László 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 t
In these marvellously written tales, Sindbad, a voyager in the realms of memory and imagination, travels through the centuries in pursuit of an ideal of love that is directed as much at the feminine essence as at his individual lovers. Whether the women h
Already famous as the inspiration for the filmmaker Béla Tarr’s six-hour masterpiece, Satantango is proof, as the spellbinding, bleak, and hauntingly beautiful book has it, that “the devil has all the good times.” The story of Satantango, spread ov
A linguist flying to a conference in Helsinki has landed in a strange city where he can't understand a word anyone says.As one claustrophobic day follows another, he wonders why no one has found him yet, whether his wife has given him up for dead, and how
Avec cette grande "histoire de famille" inspirée par la vie des siens, l'écrivain hongrois Sandor Marai (1900-1989) écrit sa Confession d'un enfant du siècle, tout à la fois itinéraire personnel et description subtile de la bourgeoisie hongroise au
Instalada en la casa que heredó de su padre y con la sola compañía de una pariente anciana, Eszter es una mujer soltera que vive con la placidez y tranquilidad de quien ha logrado adaptarse a lo que la vida le ha deparado. Hasta que un día, inesperada
El último expediente llegado a la mesa de trabajo de Kristóf Kömives, juez en la Budapest de entreguerras, es el divorcio de los Greiner. Un caso más, excepto que el nombre de soltera de la mujer, Anna Fazekas, hace perder al magistrado su inmutable s
