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The World Goes On
The World Goes On | László Krasznahorkai
A magnificent new collection of stories by “the contemporary Hungarian master of apocalypse” (Susan Sontag) In The World Goes On, a narrator first speaks directly, then tells eleven unforgettable stories, and then bids farewell (“for here I would leave this earth and these stars, because I would take nothing with me”). As László Krasznahoraki himself explains: “Each text is about drawing our attention away from this world, speeding our body toward annihilation, and immersing ourselves in a current of thought or a narrative…” A Hungarian interpreter obsessed with waterfalls, at the edge of the abyss in his own mind, wanders the chaotic streets of Shanghai. A traveler, reeling from the sights and sounds of Varanasi, encounters a giant of a man on the banks of the Ganges ranting on the nature of a single drop of water. A child laborer in a Portuguese marble quarry wanders off from work one day into a surreal realm utterly alien from his daily toils. The World Goes On is another amazing masterpiece by the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. “The excitement of his writing,” Adam Thirwell proclaimed in the New York Review of Books, “is that he has come up with this own original forms—there is nothing else like it in contemporary literature.”
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The writer we're crushing on today is László Krasznahorkai for his magnificent collection of stories, The World Goes On, shortlisted for The Man Booker International Prize 2018 ?In this work, the author confronts unsettling existential questions while showing brief moments of glimmering hope. Find it on the main floor! #writercrushwednesday #theworldgoeson #laszlokrasznahorkai

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BookwormM
The World Goes On | László Krasznahorkai
Mehso-so

#MBI2018shortlist

I don‘t like short stories and this didn‘t change my mind.

Long rambling sentences and the book left me thinking WTF have I just read.

Full review here soon www.thereadersroom.org

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Simona
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A compilation of short stories that were previously published in other works. I've read half of this collection before I allowed myself to admit that I'm not interested ... at all.
DNF for now, and maybe when I'm done with the rest of the longlist, I will give it a second chance ...

BookishTrish Funny how mood plays such a big part sometimes. My husband was leery of tackles no this one - it was his first Krasznahorkai- and he devoured it. So far his fav is the Binet. He‘s read four or five from the list. 6y
Simona @BookishTrish Absolutely agree! I didn't realize, that it is a collection of short stories. I like to read them, but I have to be in the right mood. My second mistake was that I insisted on reading such a long time. For certain it's a good book, but depending on the topic, structure and dense prose, it takes dedication. For now I‘m undecided between Binet and 6y
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Faibka
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Most recent finds. So excited to find another Krasznahorkai! I can‘t wait to read it :)

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