{"product_id":"the-world-goes-on-9780811224192","title":"The World Goes on","description":"In \u003cem\u003eThe World Goes On\u003c\/em\u003e, a narrator first speaks directly, then tells eleven unforgettable stories, and then bids farewell (\"for here I would leave this earth and these stars, because I would take nothing with me\"). As László Krasznahoraki himself explains: \"Each text is about drawing our attention away from this world, speeding our body toward annihilation, and immersing ourselves in a current of thought or a narrative...\" A Hungarian interpreter obsessed with waterfalls, at the edge of the abyss in his own mind, wanders the chaotic streets of Shanghai. A traveler, reeling from the sights and sounds of Varanasi, encounters a giant of a man on the banks of the Ganges ranting on the nature of a single drop of water. A child laborer in a Portuguese marble quarry wanders off from work one day into a surreal realm utterly alien from his daily toils. \u003cem\u003eThe World Goes On\u003c\/em\u003e is another amazing masterpiece by the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. \"The excitement of his writing,\" Adam Thirwell proclaimed in the \u003cem\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, \"is that he has come up with this own original forms--there is nothing else like it in contemporary literature.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKrasznahorkai, László:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - The winner of the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature and the 2015 Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement, \u003cstrong\u003eLászló Krasznahorkai\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Gyula, Hungary.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSzirtes, George:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eGeorge Szirtes\u003c\/strong\u003e (b. 1948) is an award-winning poet and translator who settled in England after his family fled the Hungarian Uprising of 1956.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMulzet, Ottilie:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eOttilie Mulzet\u003c\/strong\u003e is a literary critic and translator of Hungarian. Mulzet received the National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2019 for her translation of László Krasznahorkai's \u003cem\u003eBaron Wenckheim's Homecoming \u003c\/em\u003eand the Best Translated Book Award in 2014 for her translation of Krasznahorkai's \u003cem\u003eSeiobo There Below.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEt al...\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50514537775378,"sku":"9780811224192","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_845fbb74-a269-47e5-a786-d88497117193.jpg?v=1737223937","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-world-goes-on-9780811224192","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}