Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): The oppressors fear the power of the oppressed, for it is a force they do not truly understand – The Melancholy of Resistance, Krasznahorkai.

There was a fierce contest among five writers across the globe for this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, and finally the coveted award has gone to Laszlo Krasznahorkai.

Besides Laszlo Krasznahorkai, the others in the race were Can Xue, Haruki Murakami, Margaret Atwood, and Salman Rushdie.

At a time when the world is in chaos, and violence, deaths, hunger, and uncertainty are predominant everywhere, the works of Krasznahorkai reaffirm the power of words.

The silent feature of his style is long, baroque sentences, which are hypnotic and pull a reader into their grip. His recent oeuvre to appear in English is, Herscht 0776

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