[Culture] Book Club: The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai

When
15/01/2026
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

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Full Circle Book Club
hosted by Eleonora Balsano

The Melancholy of Resistance
by László Krasznahorkai

Culture | Thurs 15th Jan | 7:00-8:30 pm

Monthly meet up to discuss a great read, along with drinks & good company.

*Doors open at 6.30pm. The book club begins at 7pm.

'...lifts the reader along in lunar leaps and bounds' - The Guardian

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.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

László Krasznahorkai is a Hungarian novelist and screenwriter who is known for critically difficult and demanding novels, often labelled as postmodern, with dystopian and bleak melancholic themes. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2025. Apart from the Nobel Prize, Krasznahorkai has also been honored with numerous literary prizes, among them the highest award of the Hungarian state, the Kossuth Prize, and the 2015 Man Booker International Prize for his English-translated oeuvre.

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