War and War

War and War (Hungarian: Háború és háború) is a 1999 novel by the Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai. It tells the story of a Hungarian man who is obsessed with a mysterious manuscript, which he decides to travel to New York City to write down and post on the Internet. An English translation by George Szirtes was published in 2006.[1]

War and War
First edition cover (Hungary)
AuthorLászló Krasznahorkai
Original titleHáború és háború
TranslatorGeorge Szirtes
CountryHungary
LanguageHungarian
PublisherMagvető
Publication date
1999
Published in English
2006
Pages227
ISBN9789631421255

Reception

The New Yorker's James Wood wrote in 2011: "this is one of the most profoundly unsettling experiences I have had as a reader. By the end of the novel, I felt that I had got as close as literature could possibly take me to the inhabiting of another person, and, in partble fictions, its own grotesquely fertile pain ('Heaven is sad')."[2]

References
  1. War and war. OCLC 62421251. Retrieved 2015-04-20 – via WorldCat.
  2. Wood, James (2011-07-04). "The fiction of László Krasznahorkai". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2015-04-20.
  • War and War at the Hungarian publisher's website (in Hungarian)
  • War and War at the American publisher's website
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