The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai

Prince moves out, with the aid of the factotum - the Prince himselfīeing physically helpless - and there are serious riots. Of the minor characters toward the end of the book. Well be the Prince of Darkness, a speculation actually hazarded by one Or what is the Prince? From the fear he inspires in the director, he may Truly sinister exhibit is the one which the circus director does notĭare to put on show: a strange creature called the Prince, whoĬommunicates by a series of curious high-pitched sounds which only theĬircus factotum is able to interpret, in his rather bad Hungarian. In fact, however, the whale proves to beĪ red herring, both to the gentle reader and to the townspeople. This whale and the evil crowds which it seems to attract from outside, Whose most sensational exhibit is a stuffed whale, said to be theīiggest of its kind in the world. Small Hungarian town, visited by a vaguely sinister traveling circus, Of the characters tend to see as apocalyptic. The tale is set in a period of social and moral decline, which many That the author achieves a truly personal synthesis of these tendencies. Of tendencies may not be important, of course, provided we are satisfied Reform, is Turgenev at his most mischievously parodic. Initial meeting between the conspirators and the reclusive scholar Mr.Įszter, whom they have hijacked to their cause of social and moral Train journey and the later pub scene, is rather Dickensian, while the Likewise, much of the atmosphere, especially that of the At a deeper level, the book has several different mannersĪnd borrows a number of elements from different authors e.g., there isĪ striking example of the Gidean acte gratuit in an early sceneĭepicting the train journey, as a stranger knocks an old peasant womanįlying for no better reason than that he has seemingly grown bored with Thomas Kabdebo, while agreeing with this estimation, has suggestedĪdditionally the influence of Krudy, whereas Viktor Hatar sees that of

Kafkaesque, while the manner is basically early-to-middle Henry James.

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