| Destruction and Sorrow Beneath the Heavens: Reportage Contributor(s): Krasznahorkai, László (Author), Mulzet, Ottilie (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0857425331 ISBN-13: 9780857425331 Publisher: Seagull Books OUR PRICE: $22.05 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Asia - China - History | Asia - China - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures |
| Dewey: 894.511 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.9" W x 8.8" (0.90 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - Chinese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Known for his brilliantly dark fictional visions, L szl Krasznahorkai is one of the most respected European writers of his generation and the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. Here, he brings us on a journey through China at the dawn of the new millennium. On the precipice of its emergence as a global power, China is experiencing cataclysms of modernity as its harsh Maoist strictures meet the chaotic flux of globalism. What remains of the Middle Kingdom's ancient cultural riches? And can a Westerner truly understand China's past and present--or the murky waters where the two meet? Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens is both a travel memoir and the chronicle of a distinct intellectual shift as one of the most captivating contemporary writers and thinkers begins to engage with the cultures of Asia and the legacies of its interactions with Europe in a newly globalized society. Rendered in English by award-winning translator Ottilie Mulzet, Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens is an important work, marking the emergence of Krasznahorkai as a truly global novelist. Praise for Krasznahorkai "The contemporary Hungarian master of the apocalypse."--Susan Sontag "Krasznahorkai delights in unorthodox description; no object is too insignificant for his worrying gaze. . . . He offers us stories that are relentlessly generative and defiantly irresolvable. They are haunting, pleasantly weird, and ultimately, bigger than the worlds they inhabit."--New York Times "Krasznahorkai is an expert with the complexity of human obsessions. Each of his books feel like an event, a revelation."--Daily Beast |
Contributor Bio(s): Mulzet, Ottilie: - Ottilie Mulzet is a literary critic and award-winning Hungarian translator.Krasznahorkai, Laszlo: - László Krasznahorkai is a celebrated Hungarian novelist and winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. His works include Satantango and Seibo There Below. |
