Resistance depression

Author's name: Laszlo Krasnahorkai Publisher: Dar Al-Tanweer for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2020 Literary classification: Novel Brief about the book: Surreal novel that has a decisive place in the world of literature, depicting a series of mysterious events in a small town in Hungary. A circus arrives in the town displaying a preserved whale, the largest in the world, sparking strange rumors with its arrival. There are whispers claiming that the circus workers have a secret hidden purpose, and frightened residents cling to any form of order they can find. In the novel, there are unforgettable characters: the evil Lady Iztar who aims to seize control of the town; her weak husband; and Valoska, our unlucky hero with a head floating among the clouds, the fragile painful center of the entire novel, the only pure person with a noble spirit. A tightly written, powerful, tense novel, it is, according to poet George Sertis, "slow eruptions of flowing narration, a mighty black river like no other," but it astonishingly "lifts the reader in leaps and cosmic bounds," according to Harry Conzro in The Guardian.