Hungary

Laszlo Krasznahorkai's A Mountain to the North, A Lake to the South, Paths to the West, A River to the East was initially published in Hungary in 2003. Translated by Ottile Mulzet, I read an edition published in 2022 by Tuskar Rock Press, which is an imprint of Profile Books.

Detailed in its description, this is a story that dwells.

"you could hear them as they rustled and wailed and wept and whistled and howled and bellowed and grew quiet and turned into breezes, someone's face felt a breeze caressing it, or a trembling goldfinch feather on a branch fluttered, in brief, they could be seen in the world, and heard, and they could be felt there"

In brief, Krasznahorkai is a skilled writer, his writing is not brief and yet at the end of this book you feel you have only briefly been a witness of his work. With more time to read, I feel I would enjoy it more, a novel to return to.