We're collaborating again with the [Seoul Film Meetup Group!](https://www.meetup.com/seoul-film-meetup-group/events/311662677/) Join us to discuss recent Nobel recipient László Krasznahorkai's surreal apocalyptic novel *The Melancholy of Resistance*. Then, on November 29th the Seoul Film Meetup Group will have a meeting to discuss Béla Tarr's film adaptation of the novel, *Werckmeister Harmonies* (2000). To RSVP to the film event, you can click [here](https://www.meetup.com/seoul-film-meetup-group/events/311662677/).

Publisher's description:

"**WINNER OF THE 2025 NOBEL PRIZE**

The Hungarian master’s first work to appear in English, and still one of the best....*The Melancholy of Resistance*, László Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in a small Hungarian town. A circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the largest whale in the world, arrives in the dead of winter, prompting bizarre rumors. Word spreads that the circus folk have a sinister purpose in mind, and the frightened citizens cling to any manifestation of order they can find music, cosmology, fascism. The novel's characters are unforgettable: the evil Mrs. Eszter, plotting her takeover of the town; her weakling husband; and Valuska, our hapless hero with his head in the clouds, who is the tender center of the book, the only pure and noble soul to be found. Compact, powerful and intense, *The Melancholy of Resistance*, as its enormously gifted translator George Szirtes puts it, 'is a slow lava flow of narrative, a vast black river of type.' And yet, miraculously, the novel, in the words of The Guardian, 'lifts the reader along in lunar leaps and bounds.'"

If you don't have a physical copy of the book, you can find a copy of it here:

[https://tinyurl.com/548cr6ms](https://tinyurl.com/548cr6ms)

Our plan is to meet at Dokdabang Cafe (독수리 다방) in Sinchon, which is on the 8th floor of the building indicated on the map linked to on this page. The address of Dokdabang is 36, Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 03776. Below are Kakao Maps and Naver Maps links to the cafe:

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[https://naver.me/5BcjONpm](https://naver.me/5BcjONpm)

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