Spadework for a palace : entering the madness of others
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Author
Contributors
Bátki, John, translator.
Published
New York : New Directions Publishing, [2020]., New York : New Directions Publishing, 2020.
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96 pages ; 24 cm
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Location | Call Number | Status | Due Date |
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Downtown Lansing - 1st Floor-Adult Fiction | FIC Krasznahorkai | On MeL Loan | May 29, 2024 |
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New York : New Directions Publishing, [2020]., New York : New Directions Publishing, 2020.
Format
Book
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Originally published by Magveto in Hungarian in 2018 as Aprómunka egy palotáért.
Description
"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 worked for a while at the Customs Office"), which itself is just one aspect of his also being "constantly conscious of his connectedness" to Lebbeus Woods, to the rock that is Manhattan, to the "drunkard Cowley" and his Lunar Caustic, to Bartok. And with this consciousness of connection he is not only gaining true knowledge of Melville but also tracing the paths to "a Serene Paradise of Knowledge." Driven to save that palace (a higher library he also serves), he loses his job and his wife leaves him, but "people must be told the truth": THERE IS NO DUALISM IN EXISTENCE. And his dream, in fact, will be "realized, for I am not giving up: I am merely a day-laborer, a spade-worker on this dream, a herman melvill, a librarian from the lending desk, currently an inmate at Bellevue, but at the same time--may I say this?--actually a Keeper of the Palace.""--Provided by publisher.
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Krasznahorkai, L., & Bátki, J. (2020). Spadework for a palace: entering the madness of others (First edition.). New Directions Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Krasznahorkai, László and John, Bátki. 2020. Spadework for a Palace: Entering the Madness of Others. New Directions Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Krasznahorkai, László and John, Bátki. Spadework for a Palace: Entering the Madness of Others New Directions Publishing, 2020.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Krasznahorkai, László,, and John Bátki. Spadework for a Palace: Entering the Madness of Others First edition., New Directions Publishing, 2020.
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