The Melancholy of Resistance

by László Krasznahorkai

Originally published as «Az ellenállás melankóliája» (Hungarian)

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...