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Cover: 9780811228404 | Spadework for a Palace | László Krasznahorkai | Buch | Englisch | 2022
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Spadework for a Palace
Buch von László Krasznahorkai
Sprache: Englisch

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Spadework for a Palace bears the subtitle "Entering the Madness of Others" and offers an epigraph: "Reality is no obstacle." Indeed. This high-octane obsessive rant vaults over all obstacles, fueled by the idées fixe of a "gray little librarian" with fallen arches whose name-mr herman melvill-is merely one of the coincidences binding him to his lodestar Herman Melville ("I too resided on East 26th Street . . . I, too, had worked for a while at the Customs Office"), which itself is just one aspect of his also being "constantly conscious of his connectedness" to Lebbeus Woods, to the rock that is Manhattan, to the "drunkard Lowry" and his Lunar Caustic, to Bartok. And with this consciousness of connection he is not only gaining true knowledge of Melville, but also tracing the paths to "a Serene Paradise of Knowledge." Driven to save that Palace (a higher library he also serves), he loses his job and his wife leaves him, but "people must be told the truth: there is no dualism in existence." And his dream will be "realized, for I am not giving up: I am merely a day-laborer, a spade-worker on this dream, a herman melvill, a librarian from the lending desk, currently an inmate at Bellevue, but at the same time-may I say this?-actually a Keeper of the Palace."
Spadework for a Palace bears the subtitle "Entering the Madness of Others" and offers an epigraph: "Reality is no obstacle." Indeed. This high-octane obsessive rant vaults over all obstacles, fueled by the idées fixe of a "gray little librarian" with fallen arches whose name-mr herman melvill-is merely one of the coincidences binding him to his lodestar Herman Melville ("I too resided on East 26th Street . . . I, too, had worked for a while at the Customs Office"), which itself is just one aspect of his also being "constantly conscious of his connectedness" to Lebbeus Woods, to the rock that is Manhattan, to the "drunkard Lowry" and his Lunar Caustic, to Bartok. And with this consciousness of connection he is not only gaining true knowledge of Melville, but also tracing the paths to "a Serene Paradise of Knowledge." Driven to save that Palace (a higher library he also serves), he loses his job and his wife leaves him, but "people must be told the truth: there is no dualism in existence." And his dream will be "realized, for I am not giving up: I am merely a day-laborer, a spade-worker on this dream, a herman melvill, a librarian from the lending desk, currently an inmate at Bellevue, but at the same time-may I say this?-actually a Keeper of the Palace."
Über den Autor

The winner of the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature and the 2015 Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement, László Krasznahorkai was born in Gyula, Hungary.

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Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Reihe: Storybook ND
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780811228404
ISBN-10: 0811228401
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 22840
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Krasznahorkai, László
Übersetzung: Batki, John
Hersteller: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Storybook ND
Maße: 235 x 152 x 12 mm
Von/Mit: László Krasznahorkai
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.09.2022
Gewicht: 0,292 kg
Artikel-ID: 120798651
Über den Autor

The winner of the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature and the 2015 Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement, László Krasznahorkai was born in Gyula, Hungary.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Reihe: Storybook ND
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780811228404
ISBN-10: 0811228401
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 22840
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Krasznahorkai, László
Übersetzung: Batki, John
Hersteller: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Storybook ND
Maße: 235 x 152 x 12 mm
Von/Mit: László Krasznahorkai
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.09.2022
Gewicht: 0,292 kg
Artikel-ID: 120798651
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