# World Goes On

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- Authors: [Laszlo Krasznahorkai](https://www.bookquiver.com/laszlo-krasznahorkai)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2024-04-23

## Description

In The World Goes On, a narrator first speaks directly, then narrates a number of unforgettable stories, and then bids farewell (" here I would leave this earth and these stars, because I would take nothing with me"). As Laszlo 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..." A Hungarian interpreter obsessed with waterfalls, at the edge of the abyss in his own mind, wanders the chaotic streets of Shanghai. A traveler, reeling from the sights and sounds of Varanasi, India, encounters a giant of a man on the banks of the Ganges ranting on and on about the nature of a single drop of water. A child laborer in a Portuguese marble quarry wanders off from work one day into a surreal realm utterly alien from his daily toils. " The excitement of his writing," Adam Thirlwell proclaimed in The New York Review of Books, " is that he has come up with his own original forms-there is nothing else like it in contemporary literature."

## Editions

### World Goes On

- Publisher: New Directions Publishing
- ISBN: 978-08-1123-751-2
- Pages: 311
- Published: 2024-04-23
- Language: en_US