The World Goes On

One of the great inventors of new forms in contemporary literature … there is nothing else like it in contemporary literature – Adam Thirwell * New York Review of Books *This collection - a masterpiece of invention, utterly different from everything else - is hugely unsettling and affecting; to meet Krasznahorkai’s characters, to read his breathless, twisting sentences, is to feel altered. * Guardian *Stories of journeys that, whether undertaken or thwarted, arrive at transcendence. At the end there is only one way to go, in what has to be the most powerful page written so far this century. – Paul Griffiths * TLS Books of the Year *

Laszlo Krasznahorkai was born in Gyula, Hungary, in 1954. He is the author of The Last Wolf, War & War, The Melancholy of Resistance, Seiobo There Below, all published by Serpent’s Tail, and several other works. He has won numerous prizes, including the International Man Booker Prize 2015, 2013 Best Translated Book Award, and 1993 Best Book of the Year Award in Germany.