The Melancholy of Resistance (Record no. 12124)
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| fixed length control field | 01553nam a2200181 4500 |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 00055421 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780811215046 |
| 024 ## - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER | |
| Standard number or code | 52074370 |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | PH3281.K8866 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 894.51134 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Laszlo Krasznahorkai |
| 245 1# - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Melancholy of Resistance |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | New Directions |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 320 pages |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | 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, Ls̀zl K̤rasznahorkai'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." |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Literature |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Copy number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Lake Chapala Society | Lake Chapala Society | 07/17/2024 | 894.511 KRAS | 53894 | 07/17/2024 | 1 | 07/17/2024 | Book |