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THE MELANCHOLY OF RESISTANCE

THE MELANCHOLY OF RESISTANCE

LÁSZLÓ KRASZNAHORKAI

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Publisher:
PHOENIX
Year of publication:
2016
Subject:
Contemporary fiction
ISBN:
978-1-78125-624-4
Pages:
321
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A circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the largest whale in the world, arrives in the dead of winter, prompting bizarre rumours. Word spreads that the circus folk have a sinister purpose in mind, and the frightened citizens cling to any manifestation of order they can find - music, cosmology, fascism.

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