



The World Goes On
3.690 kr.A Hungarian interpreter obsessed with waterfalls, at the edge of the abyss in his own mind, wanders the chaotic streets of Shanghai. A traveller, 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 labourer in a Portuguese marble quarry wanders off from work one day into a surreal realm utterly alien from his daily toils.
In The World Goes On , a narrator first speaks directly, tells twenty-one unforgettable stories, then bids farewell (‘ for here I would leave this earth and these stars, because I would take nothing with me ‘). As László Krasznahorkai 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…’


Satantango
3.690 kr.In the darkening embers of a Communist utopia, life in a desolate Hungarian town has come to a virtual standstill. Flies buzz, spiders weave, water drips and animals root desultorily in the barnyard of a collective farm.
But when the charismatic Irimias – long-thought dead – returns, the villagers fall under his spell. Irimias sets about swindling the villagers out of a fortune that might allow them to escape the emptiness and futility of their existence. He soon attains a messianic aura as he plays on the fears of the townsfolk and a series of increasingly brutal events unfold.


The Last Wolf & Herman
3.490 kr.In The Last Wolf, a philosophy professor is mistakenly hired to write the true tale of the last wolf of Extremadura, a barren stretch of Spain. His miserable experience is narrated in a single, rolling sentence to a patently bored bartender in a dreary Berlin bar.
In Herman, a master trapper is asked to clear a forest’s last ‘noxious beasts.’ Herman begins with great zeal, although in time he switches sides, deciding to track entirely new game… In Herman II, the same events are related from the perspective of strange visitors to the region, a group of hyper-sexualised aristocrats who interrupt their orgies to pitch in with the manhunt of poor Herman…
These intense, perfect novellas, full of Krasznhorkai’s signature sense of foreboding and dark irony, are perfect examples of his craft.


Indjáninn
4.590 kr.Indjáninn er saga um fjörmikinn strák, örverpi aldraðra foreldra. Drengurinn á við ýmis vandamál að stríða sem valda honum erfiðleikum í uppvextinum, svo sem ofvirkni, athyglisbrest, rautt hár og nærsýni. Hann er hugmyndaríkur og margvísleg uppátæki hans, sum stórhættuleg, vekja litla lukku hjá hinum fullorðnu. Þetta er áhrifamikil uppvaxtarsaga sem sveiflast á milli strákslegrar gleði og nístandi einmanaleika þess sem ekki er alltaf í takt við umhverfið, en jafnframt er hér brugðið upp ljóslifandi mynd af samfélagi áttunda áratugarins frá sjónarhorni barnsins.


