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The World Goes On

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Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing. Item number: 998

Last updated on Jun 13, 2026 05:08 PM

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Category Brains & Noble > Fiction

Condition new

SKU BN-117945

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A Hungarian interpreter obsessed with waterfalls, at the edge of the abyss in his own mind, wanders the chaotic streets of Shanghai. A traveller, reeling from the sights and sounds of Varanasi, encounters a giant of a man on the banks of the Ganges ranting on the nature of a single drop of water. A child labourer in a Portuguese marble quarry wanders off from work one day into a surreal realm utterly alien from his daily toils.

In The World Goes On, a narrator first speaks directly, tells twenty-one unforgettable stories, then bids farewell (‘for 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…’