In The World Goes On, a narrator first speaks directly, tells twenty-one unforgettable stories, then bids farewell ('for here I would leave this earth and these stars, because I would take nothing with me').
As László 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...'
The World Goes On is
another masterpiece by the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International
Prize. '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.'
