The Melancholy of Resistance

by László Krasznahorkai

WINNER OF THE 2025 NOBEL PRIZE The Hungarian master’s first work to appear in English, and still one of the best 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 de...