Among his best-known works are ‘The Melancholy of Resistance’, about events in a small town after a circus arrives with a huge stuffed whale in tow, and ‘Herscht 07769’, which imagines a graffiti cleaner in Germany who writes letters to Chancellor Angela Merkel to alert her to the world’s impending destruction. Although Krasznahorkai published “The Melancholy of Resistance” in Hungarian in 1989, it did not appear in English translation until 1998. “Herscht 07769” was published in English last year in the US. The novel features only one period in its 400 pages. Much of Krasznahorkai’s fiction is written in sentences...
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