The Manhattan Project
Publisher: Sylph Editions
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Translated from: hun
Translation of: A Manhattan-terv
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781909631236
Subjects: Creation (literary, artistic, etc.)
Description: "In this literary diary, Krasznahorkai chronicles his attempts to fathom the life of Herman Melville, which is also the source of inspiration for his forthcoming novella Spadework for a Palace. Retracing Melville’s steps, Krasznahorkai becomes engrossed in a web of chance encounters and coincidences that stretch from Manhattan to Nantucket, to London and to Berlin. Over the course of his wanderings, Krasznahorkai finds himself increasingly alienated from his present-day surroundings, drawn instead to the company of ghosts: the novelist Malcolm Lowry when he was down-and-out, the visionary architect Lebbeus Woods and of course – Melville himself. Ornan Rotem’s photographic essay follows Krasznahorkai on his forays, both in space and time, creating a subtle portrait of a creative mind at work and the places he encounters."--Publisher.

Internationally celebrated Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai has been heralded by Susan Sontag as 'the Hungarian master of the apocalypse' and compared favourably to Gogol by W. G. Sebald. A new work by Krasznahorkai is always an event, and this book is no less. As part of the author's fellowship at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, he has been working on a novella inspired by a reading of 'Moby-Dick'. Yet, as he follows in Herman Melville's footsteps, a second book alongside the novella took shape. This is that book.