The Melancholy of Resistance

In the first days of December, in a provincial Hungarian town, a bizarre circus sets up tents and hangs posters on the night streets - promising to show a stuffed animal of the world's largest whale and a mysterious dwarf named Prince. Along with the news of the miracle, disturbing rumors begin to spread, saying that the circus workers have arrived with evil intentions. And while some residents cling to the safe comfort of their homes and familiar rituals, others succumb to an unbridled thirst for power...

The works of Hungarian writer László Krasnagorkai, winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize and the 2015 Booker Prize, have already acquired the status of classics of world literature. They have been translated into more than 25 languages, including Ukrainian. "The Melancholy of Resistance" (1989) is a grandiose novel with a continuous flow of text without shores, which is simultaneously a dark ocean, the music of infinity, and the Cosmos.