melancholy
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Tarr also brought to the screen an adaptation of the writer's 1989 novel "The Melancholy of Resistance", also set in a desolate communist-era location, in his 2000 film "Werckmeister Harmonies".
From Barron's • Oct. 9, 2025
His follow-up, “The Melancholy of Resistance,” published in 1989, places the reader in a similar uneasy and apocalyptic world.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
It stars a pair of young women in battle with a supernatural villain named Mr. Melancholy.
From Seattle Times • May 1, 2024
Based on the novel “The Melancholy of Resistance,” by Laszlo Krasznahorkai, it was his first opera written to a Hungarian libretto.
From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2024
Melancholy descended on him as he left the building.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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