Rebellious Melancholy
by (hungary) Krasnohorkaj Laszlo
About This Novel
"Melancholy of Resistance" is a novel written by Hungarian writer Krasnohorcay Laszlo in 1989. It is also the original work of Béla Tarr's film "The Circus of the Whales". The novel unfolds a series of fragmented story descriptions around the protagonists, Mrs. Estaire, Mrs. Flaum, young man Valushka and other characters, and presents chaotic events in a Hungarian town from many aspects: a giant whale is transported to the town by the circus, and the onlookers each have different motives and intentions. Soon after, rumors spread around the town that the circus people were quietly hatching a sinister agenda, and frightened citizens seized on any manifestation of order they could find to criticize-music, cosmology, fascism, whatever.
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