Laszlo membawa saya ke kota kecil di Hungaria pada musim dingin yang gelap dan kacau karena datangnya sebuah rombongan sirkus dengan ikan paus raksasa, yang bersamanya, membawa segerombolan manusia yang entah datang dari mana, yang juga ingin melihat ikan paus raksasa.Īpa capek membaca buku tanpa paragraf? Ya enggak juga. Enggak ada paragraf di buku ini, kalimatnya panjang-panjang, menyedot perhatian. Kalau diandaikan pasangan, dia pasangan yang posesif. Meskipun begitu, saya enggak baca bukunya Laszlo karena Sontag dan baru tau begitu bukunya datang, kalo Sontah menulis sedikit endorsement buat dia.īuku ini intens sekali. Jadi, berapa banyak penulis yang masih hidup dan bisa pamer kalau buku dia dibaca, disukai, dan diberikan endorsement oleh intelektual besar seperti Susan Sontag? Beberapa, dan Laszlo salah satunya. Compact, powerful and intense, The Melancholy of Resistance, as its enormously gifted translator George Szirtes puts it, "is a slow lava flow of narrative, a vast black river of type." And yet, miraculously, the novel, in the words of The Guardian, "lifts the reader along in lunar leaps and bounds."
Eszter, plotting her takeover of the town her weakling husband and Valuska, our hapless hero with his head in the clouds, who is the tender center of the book, the only pure and noble soul to be found. The novel's characters are unforgettable: the evil Mrs. 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. A circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the largest whale in the world, arrives in the dead of winter, prompting bizarre rumours. The Melancholy of Resistance, László Krasznahorkai's magisterial novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in a small Hungarian town. A powerful, surreal novel, in the tradition of Gogol, about the chaotic events surrounding the arrival of a circus in a small Hungarian town.
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