{"product_id":"9780811237512","title":"The World Goes On","description":"In \u003cem\u003eThe World Goes On\u003c\/em\u003e, a narrator first speaks directly, then narrates a number of unforgettable stories, and then bids farewell (“here I would leave this earth and these stars, because I would take nothing with me”). 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 and on about 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. “The excitement of his writing,” Adam Thirlwell proclaimed in \u003cem\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, “is that he has come up with his own original forms—there is nothing else like it in contemporary literature.”","brand":"Laszlo Krasznahorkai","offers":[{"title":"New Directions Publishing |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2024-04-02","offer_id":44414011932927,"sku":"9780811237512","price":29.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_ac44c7fc-3a57-488b-93db-5e5184cd55b5.jpg?v=1697661185","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780811237512","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}