{"product_id":"the-world-goes-on","title":"The World Goes On","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eThe World Goes On\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eGeorge Krasznahorkai, László; Mulzet, Ottilie; Szirtes\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780811237512\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eNew Directions\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2024\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eThird\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e320\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe World Goes On\u003c\/em\u003e, a narrator first speaks directly, then narrates a number of unforgettable stories, and then bids farewell (\"here I would leave this earth and these stars, because I would take nothing with me\"). As László Krasznahorkai 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, India, encounters a giant of a man on the banks of the Ganges ranting on and on about 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. \"The excitement of his writing,\" Adam Thirlwell proclaimed in \u003cem\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, \"is that he has come up with his own original forms--there is nothing else like it in contemporary literature.\"\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"New Directions","offers":[{"title":"The World Goes On | George Krasznahorkai, László; Mulzet, Ottilie; Szirtes | Paperback | 9780811237512 | New | Fiction 1534939","offer_id":50731636162818,"sku":"1534939","price":32.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/A1pc27nCMfL.jpg?v=1791909220","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/the-world-goes-on","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}