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Book SynopsisFrom the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International PrizeTrade Review"The book, a collection of two short stories, acts as a distillation of Krasznahorkai’s essential themes: apocalypse and the death of innocent violence." -- Jake Romm - The New Inquiry
"The universality of its vision rivals that of Gogol's
Dead Souls." -- W. G. Sebald
"An inexorable, visionary book by the contemporary Hungarian master of apocalypse who inspires comparison with Gogol and Melville." -- Susan Sontag
"In Krasznahorkai’s deft hands, the effect is a layered, freewheeling, amazingly persuasive tour of living human consciousness, in varied states of self-awareness." -- Chris Lehmann - Newsday
"Krasznahorkai's artistry merits serious notice. May further translations grant him the wider notice he deserves among English-speaking readers." -- Review of Contemporary Literature
"Ingeniously composed and fascinating." -- Kirkus Reviews
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The Melancholy of Resistance is a slow lava flow of narrative, a vast black river of type." -- George Szirtes
"Lifts the reader along in lunar leaps and bounds." -- The Guardian
"One of the great novels of the last quarter-century—like a MittelEuropean
Moby Dick." -- Garth Risk Hallberg - The Millions
