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melancholy

[mel-uhn-kol-ee] / ˈmɛl ənˌkɒl i /




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American critic Susan Sontag crowned Krasznahorkai the "master of the apocalypse" after having read his second book "The Melancholy of Resistance" in 1989, the Academy said.

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 held me hostage and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson




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