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A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East / László Krasznahorkai ; translated by Ottilie Mulzet. - London : Tuskar Rock Press, 2024. - 130 stron ; 20 cm.

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Krasznahorkai László (1954- ). Autor Mulzet Ottilie. Tłumaczenie

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Literatura węgierska

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Buddyzm Duchowość Kontemplacja Mnisi Pielgrzymi Zakony

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Książka w języku angielskim. The grandson of Prince Genji lives outside of space and time and wanders the grounds of an old monastery in Kyoto. The monastery, too, is timeless, with barely a trace of any human presence. The wanderer is searching for a garden that has long captivated him. This novel by International Booker Prize winner László Krasznahorkai - perhaps his most serene and poetic work - describes a search for the unobtainable and the riches to be discovered along the way. Despite difficulties in finding the garden, the reader is closely introduced to the construction processes of the monastery as well as the geological and biological processes of the surrounding area, making this an unforgettable meditation on nature, life, history, and being.

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Krasznahorkai László (1954- ). Autor Mulzet Ottilie. Tłumaczenie

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Kołchozy Pesymizm Pracownicy Wsie Szaleństwo Fanatyzm Węgry

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Książka w języku angielskim. In the darkening embers of a Communist utopia, life in a desolate Hungarian town has come to a virtual standstill. Flies buzz, spiders weave, water drips and animals root desultorily in the barnyard of a collective farm. But when the charismatic Irimias - long-thought dead - returns to the commune, the villagers fall under his spell. The Devil has arrived in their midst. Irimias will divide and rule: his arrival heralds the beginning of a period of violence and greed for the villagers as he sets about swindling them out of a fortune that might allow them to escape the emptiness and futility of their existence. He soon attains a messianic aura as he plays on the fears of the townsfolk and a series of increasingly brutal events unfold. Satantango follows the villagers as they are exploited and taken in by Irimias, as they drink and stumble their way toward the gradual realization of their mistake and ultimate demise. In its measured prose and long, Tolstoyan sentences, Satantango is nothing short of a literary masterpiece; a formal meditation on death and avarice, human fallibility and faith.

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War & war / László Krasznahorkai ; translated by George Szirtes. - London : Tuskar Rock Press, 2016. - [8], 279 stron ; 20 cm.

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Krasznahorkai László (1954- ). Autor Szirtes George (1948- ). Tłumaczenie

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Mężczyzna Archiwistki i archiwiści Rękopisy Melancholia Sens życia Urojenia Węgry Nowy Jork (Stany Zjednoczone)

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Książka w języku angielskim. On a dark train platform Korim is on the verge of being attacked by thuggish teenagers and robbed; and from here, we are carried along by the insistent voice of this nervous clerk. Desperate, at times almost mad, but also keenly empathic, Korim has discovered in a small Hungarian town's archives an antique manuscript of startling beauty: it narrates the epic tale of brothers-in-arms struggling to return home from a disastrous war. Korim is determined to do away with himself, but before he can commit suicide, he feels he must escape to New York with the precious manuscript and commit it to eternity by typing it all on the world-wide web. Following Korim with obsessive realism through the streets of New York (from his landing in a Bowery flophouse to his moving far uptown with a mad interpreter), War and War relates his encounters with a fascinating range of humanity, a world torn between viciousness and mysterious beauty.

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The World goes on / László Krasznahorkai ; translated from the Hungarian by John Batki, Ottilie Mulzet, and Georges Szirtes. - London : Tuskar Rock Press, 2018. - [6], 311 ston ; 20 cm.

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Krasznahorkai László (1954- ). Autor Bátki John (1942- ). Tłumaczenie Mulzet Ottilie. Tłumaczenie Szirtes George (1948- ). Tłumaczenie

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Opowiadania i nowele Antologia

Książka w języku angielskim. 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 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.

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Concerning the future of souls : 99 stories of Azrael / Joy Williams. - London : Tuskar Rock Press, 2024. - [12], 160 stron ; 20 cm.

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Williams Joy. Autor

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Literatura amerykańska

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Azrael (postać fikcyjna) Anioły Śmierć

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Opowiadania i nowele

Książka w języku angielskim. Filled with humour, canny allusion, beauty, and a profundity born of glimpsing human lives. Joy Williams offers ninety-nine illuminations on mortality as she brings her powers of observation to Azrael, the Angel of Death and transporter of souls. Balancing the extraordinary and the humble, the bizarre and the beatific, the book presents Azrael as a thoughtful and troubled protagonist as he confronts the holy impossibility of his task, his uneasy relationship with Death and his friendship with the Devil.

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