{"product_id":"spadework-for-a-palace-by-laszlo-krasznahorkai-john-batki-translation","title":"Spadework for a Palace by\nLászló Krasznahorkai\n, \nJohn Batki\n (Translation)","description":"\u003cheader id=\"Header\" class=\"Header Header__siteHeaderBanner\" data-auth=\"0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"Header__contents\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-testid=\"primaryNavContainer\" class=\"Header__primaryNavContainer Header__primaryNavContainer--hide\"\u003e\n\u003cnav class=\"HeaderPrimaryNav\" aria-label=\"Primary Navigation\" role=\"navigation\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/nav\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/header\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"PageFrame PageFrame--siteHeaderBanner\" data-testid=\"pageFrame\"\u003e\u003cmain class=\"PageFrame__main BookPage\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"BookPage__gridContainer\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"BookPage__rightColumn\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"BookPage__mainContent\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"BookPageMetadataSection\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-testid=\"description\" class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large TruncatedContent__text--expanded\" data-testid=\"contentContainer\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSpadework for a Palace\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebears the subtitle “Entering the hers” and offers an epigraph: “Reality is no obstacle.” \u003cem\u003eIndeed\u003c\/em\u003e. This high-octane obsessive rant vaults over all obstacles, fueled by the idées fixe of a “gray little librarian” with fallen arches whose name—mr herman melvill—is merely one of the coincidences binding him to his lodestar Herman Melville (“I too resided on East 26th Street…I, too, had worked for a while at the Customs Office”), which itself is just one aspect of his also being “\u003cem\u003econstantly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003econscious of his connectedness” to Lebbeus Woods, to the rock that is Manhattan, to the “drunkard Cowley” and his\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLunar Caustic\u003c\/em\u003e, to Bartok. And with this consciousness of connection he is not only gaining true knowledge of Melville but also tracing the paths to “a Serene Paradise of Knowledge.” Driven to save that palace (a higher library he also serves), he loses his job and his wife leaves him, but “\u003cem\u003epeople must be told the truth\u003c\/em\u003e”: THERE IS NO DUALISM IN EXISTENCE. And his dream, in fact, will be “realized, for I am not giving up: I am merely a day-laborer, a spade-worker on this dream, a herman melvill, a librarian from the lending desk, currently an inmate at Bellevue, but at the same time—may I say this?—actually a Keeper of the Palace.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003epages; 96\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/main\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books Hut","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48089669959897,"sku":null,"price":700.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0801\/9902\/4857\/files\/rn-image_picker_lib_temp_15a69c2f-c8b6-4f47-a487-78836c7d979d.jpg?v=1772699059","url":"https:\/\/bookdiscovery.store\/products\/spadework-for-a-palace-by-laszlo-krasznahorkai-john-batki-translation","provider":"Bookdiscovery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}