The World Goes On

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In The World Goes On, 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 The New York Review of Books, is that he has come up...

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