A Mountain to the North, A Lake to The South, Paths to the West, A River to the East
A Mountain to the North, A Lake to The South, Paths to the West, A River to the East
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An exquisitely beautiful new novel from one of the world's greatest living writers.
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A Mountain to the North, A Lake to The South, Paths to the West, A River to the East by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
An exquisitely beautiful new novel from one of the world's greatest living writers.
Krasznahorkai throws down a challenge: raise your game or get your coat.. the intensity of his commitment to the art of fiction is indisputable...exhilarating, even euphoric. -- Hari Kunzru
László Krasznahorkai writes prose of breathtaking energy and beauty ... He has elevated the novel form and is to be ranked among the great European novelists -- Colm Toibin
The universality of Krasznahorkai's vision rivals that of Gogol's Dead Souls and far surpasses all the lesser concerns of contemporary writing -- W.G. Sebald
Intensely thought-provoking * Los Angeles Review of Books *
Beautiful ... through Mulzet's exceptional work, we can appreciate the enchantment of language that is attentive to precise details * Irish Times *
Explores the beatific, languorous, and even beautiful possibilities of extreme syntax ... One of the impressive achievements of A Mountain to the North is how well it maintains its reverie - how dull it isn't * Asymptote *
This is fiction as hypnosis ... there is so much beauty in this patch of serenity * Telegraph *
László Krasznahorkai writes prose of breathtaking energy and beauty ... He has elevated the novel form and is to be ranked among the great European novelists -- Colm Toibin
The universality of Krasznahorkai's vision rivals that of Gogol's Dead Souls and far surpasses all the lesser concerns of contemporary writing -- W.G. Sebald
Intensely thought-provoking * Los Angeles Review of Books *
Beautiful ... through Mulzet's exceptional work, we can appreciate the enchantment of language that is attentive to precise details * Irish Times *
Explores the beatific, languorous, and even beautiful possibilities of extreme syntax ... One of the impressive achievements of A Mountain to the North is how well it maintains its reverie - how dull it isn't * Asymptote *
This is fiction as hypnosis ... there is so much beauty in this patch of serenity * Telegraph *
László Krasznahorkai has won the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature for Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming, the 2015 Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement and the 2024 Prix Formentor for lifetime achievement. Several of his most famous novels including Satantango and The Melancholy of Resistance were turned into films by the director Béla Tarr. Ottilie Mulzet is a literary critic and translator of Hungarian. She received the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature in and the 2014 Best Translated Book Award.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781800814585 |
| ISBN 10 | 1800814585 |
| Title | A Mountain to the North, A Lake to The South, Paths to the West, A River to the East |
| Author | Laszlo Krasznahorkai |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Profile Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2023-01-12 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |