Spadework for a Palace

László Krasznahorkai

Original title: Aprómunka egy palotaért

earliest edition we have, 2018 New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2022

Spadework for a Palace bears the subtitle “Entering the Madness of Others” and offers an epigraph: “Reality is no obstacle.” Indeed. This high-octane obsessive rant vaults over all obstacles, fueled by the idées fixe of a “gray little librarian” with fallen arches whose name—mr herman melvill—is merely one of the coincidences binding him to his lodestar Herman Melville (“I too resided on East 26th Street…I, too, had...

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John Batki 1 printing we hold · 2020 · New Directions

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Spadework for a Palace edition · 2022 · New Directions Publishing Corporation · 9780811228411
Spadework for a Palace hardcover · 2020 · New Directions · 96 pages · 9780811228404
Aprómunka egy palotáért hardcover · 2018 · Magvető · 82 pages · 9789631437720

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