Name: [Culture] Book Club: The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai
Start: 2026-01-15T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-01-15T20:30:00+01:00
Location: Chaussée de Vleurgat 89, 1050 Ixelles, Belgium

$[Culture] Book Club: The Melancholy of Resistance by L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Krasznahorkai$

László Krasznahorkai's magisterial novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in a small Hungarian town. A circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the largest whale in the world, arrives in the dead of winter, prompting bizarre rumours. Word spreads that the circus folk have a sinister purpose in mind, and the frightened citizens cling to any manifestation of order they can find - music, cosmology, fascism. The novel's characters are unforgettable, with only pure and noble soul to be found...A powerful, surreal novel.