Books by László Krasznahorkai
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review 1: "He gazed sadly at the threatening sky, at the burned-out remnants of a locust-plagued summer, and suddenly saw on the twig of an acacia, as in a vision, the progress of spring, summer, fall and winter, as if the whole of time were a frivolous interlude in the much greater spaces...
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review 1: Oh my. The nuanced verse (how'd this get translated anyhow?) that flows through complex chapters brings us glimpses of artistic brilliance and is like nothing I've ever experienced; I have comprehended a sense, not a whole, of the creative inspiration of which I have been unawar...
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review 1: Seiobo There Below, a novel by the Hungarian novelist, Laszlo Krasznahorkai, opens with a Japanese still life - a crane in a river. The narration pulls back and we have a crane in a river - an absolutely still crane patiently waiting for a fish to swim within darting distance sur...
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review 1: It is books like these that make me wish I had a power over words. If I could only convey to you, you who are reading this, what beauty and terror is contained within these scant pages I would know such joy that I have never known. But I can't. I can't even convince you that whil...