The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai

He creates scenes that are 'terrifying, strange, appallingly comic, and often shatteringly beautiful', she said, noting that Krasznahorkai was 'superbly served' by his translators, George Szirtes and Ottilie Mulzet. 'Laszlo Krasznahorkai is a visionary writer of extraordinary intensity and vocal range,' writer and academic Marina Warner, who chaired the panel, said as she announced the winner at an award ceremony in London on Tuesday. Krasznahorkai, 61, won the prestigious 60,000-pound ($90,000) prize for works that include 'The Melancholy of Resistance', 'Seiobo There Below' and 'Satantango' and was chosen from among ten contenders. 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.By Krisztina Than BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai has won the Man Booker International Prize for what the judges said were 'magnificent works of deep imagination and complex passions, in which the human comedy verges painfully onto transcendence'. 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. The novel's characters are unforgettable: the evil Mrs. 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. A circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the largest whale in the world, arrives in the dead of winter, prompting bizarre rumors. The Melancholy of Resistance, László Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in a small Hungarian town.

From the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International PrizeĪ 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 by László Krasznahorkai