{"product_id":"the-world-goes-on-laszlo-krasznahorkai-george-szirtes-translator-ottilie-mulzet-translator","title":"The World Goes On\nLászló Krasznahorkai\n, \nGeorge Szirtes\n (Translator)\nOttilie Mulzet\n (Translator)","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\u003cul class=\"HeaderPrimaryNav__list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\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.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe World Goes On\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis another amazing masterpiece by the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. “The excitement of his writing,” Adam Thirwell proclaimed in the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\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.”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003epages: 311\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/nav\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/header\u003e","brand":"Books Hut","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48089673793753,"sku":null,"price":1800.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0801\/9902\/4857\/files\/rn-image_picker_lib_temp_2895a661-0ca3-4e8b-9d7e-65591bcaf011.jpg?v=1772699062","url":"https:\/\/bookdiscovery.store\/products\/the-world-goes-on-laszlo-krasznahorkai-george-szirtes-translator-ottilie-mulzet-translator","provider":"Bookdiscovery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}