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Julian Murphet

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Articles Written By Julian Murphet

a great pessimist has won the literature nobel

A Great Pessimist Has Won the Literature Nobel

László Krasznahorkai's prose is difficult to excerpt. The sentences never end, so even a few quoted words inevitably draw one into the vortex of an all-consuming syntactical storm system. There is no way out once you are drawn in. You find yourself in a stylistic quicksand that is perversely comforting.