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award-winning cultural historian Bob Batchelor offers an in-depth and complete look at this iconic visionary

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The Melancholy of Resistance Barrie a voyage toward the box’sThe Melancholy of Resistance, Lszl Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal 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.