melancholy
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American critic Susan Sontag crowned Krasznahorkai the "master of the apocalypse" after having read his second book "The Melancholy of Resistance" in 1989, the Academy said.
From Barron's • Oct. 9, 2025
His follow-up, “The Melancholy of Resistance,” published in 1989, places the reader in a similar uneasy and apocalyptic world.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
Based on the novel “The Melancholy of Resistance,” by Laszlo Krasznahorkai, it was his first opera written to a Hungarian libretto.
From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2024
Marc-André Dalbavie’s opera based on Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s surrealistic novel “The Melancholy of Resistance” will premiere next summer in Berlin.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 29, 2023
Melancholy descended on him as he left the building.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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