In 1993 "The Melancholy of Resistance" was awarded the Best Book of the Year in Germany.
Laszlo Krasznahorkai was born in Gyula, Hungary in 1954. He has won numerous international literary awards and his works have been translated into many languages.
"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 "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
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