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Destruction and Sorrow Beneath the Heavens (Hungarian: Rombolás és bánat az Ég alatt) is a 2004 book by the Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai. The narrator, László Stein, travels in China in search of examples of classical Chinese culture and understanding how contemporary Chinese society relates to it.
1 Jan 2004 · Rendered in English by award-winning translator Ottilie Mulzet, Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens is an important work, marking the emergence of Krasznahorkai as a truly global novelist.
Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens. Reportage. László Krasznahorkai. Translated by Ottilie Mulzet. Known for his brilliantly dark fictional visions, László Krasznahorkai is one of the most respected European writers of his generation and the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize.
30 Jun 2016 · László Krasznahorkai’s Destruction and Sorrow Beneath the Heavens follows a traveler as he chronicles a China that has adopted Western capitalism and seems to have almost instantaneously lost its connection with its own past. Krasznahorkai is too late.
15 Feb 2016 · Rendered in English by award-winning translator Ottilie Mulzet, Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens is an important work, marking the emergence of Krasznahorkai as a truly global novelist. Praise for Krasznahorkai.
‘ Destruction and Sorrow Beneath the Heavens, a book of quasi-fictional reportage by László Krasznahorkai (who styles himself the poet Stein throughout), is a travelogue under modern China’s apocalyptic sky.
15 Mac 2016 · The annoyances of travel are everywhere in László Krasznahorkai’s Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens (Seagull, 2016), but they are merely incidental to the central frustration of his quest, conducted over months spent in regions around Shanghai, to see if the classical culture of China might still be found living, and being lived . . .
