War and War explained

War and War
Author:László Krasznahorkai
Translator:George Szirtes
Title Orig:Háború és háború
Country:Hungary
Language:Hungarian
Publisher:Magvető
Pub Date:1999
English Pub Date:2006
Pages:227
Isbn:9789631421255

War and War is a 1999 novel by the Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai. It tells the story of a Hungarian man who is obsessed with a mysterious manuscript, which he decides to travel to New York City to write down and post on the Internet. An English translation by George Szirtes was published in 2006.[1]

Reception

The New Yorker's James Wood wrote in 2011: "This is one of the most profoundly unsettling experiences I have had as a reader. By the end of the novel, I felt that I had got as close as literature could possibly take me to the inhabiting of another person, and, in particular, the inhabiting of a mind in the grip of 'war and war'—a mind not without visions of beauty but also one that is utterly lost in its own boiling, incommunicable fictions, its own grotesquely fertile pain ('Heaven is sad')."[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: War and war. WorldCat. 62421251 . 2015-04-20.
  2. Wood. James. James Wood (critic). 2011-07-04. The fiction of László Krasznahorkai. The New Yorker. 2015-04-20.