László Krasznahorkai
Remembering 'The Melancholy of Resistance'
Congratulations, László Krasznahorkai, for winning the Nobel Prize for literature. I still remember reading his The Melancholy of Resistance (1989). It was a mostly unnerving, somewhat frightening experience because I read it at a time of great uncertainty in my own life. In The Melancholy, chaos lurks in the banal