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WINNER OF THE 2025 NOBEL PRIZE
The Hungarian master’s first work to appear in English, and still one of the best
A 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, László Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal 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 rumors. 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. The novel's characters are unforgettable: the evil Mrs. 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. 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."
(Excerpt from amazon.com)
本書精選了20世紀60年代至今香港社會使用頻率較高的300個港式日語，一方面加深本地讀者對中文母語的瞭解，另一方面提高日語愛好者的日語水平，以及為學者研究日新月異的香港語言問題提供參考借鑒。
