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\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for The Man Booker International Prize 2018\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Hungarian interpreter obsessed with waterfalls, at the edge of the abyss in his own mind, wanders the chaotic streets of Shanghai. A traveller, 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 labourer in a Portuguese marble quarry wanders off from work one day into a surreal realm utterly alien from his daily toils.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe World Goes On\u003c/i\u003e, a narrator first speaks directly, tells twenty-one unforgettable stories, then bids farewell ('\u003ci\u003efor here I would leave this earth and these stars, because I would take nothing with me\u003c/i\u003e'). 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...' \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe World Goes On \u003c/i\u003eis another masterpiece by the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. 'The excitement of his writing,' Adam Thirlwell proclaimed in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c/i\u003e, 'is that he has come up with his own original forms-there is nothing else like it in contemporary literature.'\u003c/p\u003e |
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