The Melancholy of Resistance Prix du Festival d'Angoulême for Alph-art du coup de coeur (2001) These are stories about our

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The Melancholy of Resistance Prix du Festival d'Angoulême for Alph-art du coup de coeur (2001) These are stories about ourA powerful, surreal novel, in the tradition of Gogol, about the chaotic events surrounding the arrival of a circus in a small Hungarian town. The Melancholy of Resistance, Lszl Krasznahorkai's magisterial novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in a small Hungarian town. 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