Tag Archives: The Melancholy of Resistance

Gentle yet final

Posted on October 21, 2025 by VM

A strange thing: a whale has washed up on a beach near Visakhapatnam. Not just any whale but a fully grown baleen, a hundred feet long and weighing about 40 tonnes (although I’m not clear how they were able to … Continue reading →

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Remembering ‘The Melancholy of Resistance’

Posted on October 9, 2025 by VM

Congratulations, László Krasznahorkai, for winning the Nobel Prize for literature. I still remember reading his The Melancholy of Resistance (1989). It was a mostly unnerving, somewhat frightening experience because I read it at a time of great uncertainty in my … Continue reading →

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