- International Booker Prize 2018 · Shortlist · for the translation by George Szirtes, Ottilie Mulzet, John Batki
- Aegon Art Award 2014 · Shortlist
The World Goes On
Megy a világ
László Krasznahorkai (born 1954)
Translated by George Szirtes, Ottilie Mulzet, John Batki
English editions
In EnglishThe World Goes On
New Directions · United States · 2 April 2024 · Paperback · 288 pages
The World Goes On
New Directions · United States · 5 December 2017 · Hardcover · 288 pages
The World Goes On
Tuskar Rock Press · United Kingdom · 2017
The World Goes On
Tuskar Rock Press · United Kingdom · 2018
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Twenty pieces of monologue, reflection, confession and memory, built from long winding sentences. Their mysterious hero first speaks, then narrates, then says goodbye in a poem-like prose piece. Along the way come the people and creatures he tells of: Gagarin leaving the earth, a flightless rail discovered on Okinawa in 1981, a homeless man on a Berlin metro platform, Nietzsche gone mad in Turin, the painter Palma Vecchio, a child murderer, an old man in India standing on one hand. What joins them is a restless attention to the human landscape.
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About the book
- Form
- Short stories
- First published
- 2013 by Magvető
- Author's age
- 59 when first published
- ISBN
9789631430738 (original)
9780811224192 (New Directions, United States)
9781788160117 (Tuskar Rock Press, United Kingdom)
9781788160124 (Tuskar Rock Press, United Kingdom)
9780811237512 (New Directions, United States)
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