Destruction and sorrow beneath the heavens : reportage

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"Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens is both a travel memoir and the chronicle of a distinct intellectual shift as one of the most captivating contemporary writers and thinkers begins to engage with the cultures of Asia and the legacies of its interactions with Europe in a newly globalized society. 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"--Amazon.com. Read more... Abstract: IN Read more... Content: Introduction into an obscurity -- Two pilgrims -- As if they were anxious -- The end, but of what? Tang Xiaodu -- The great journey: The first steps -- Yao, why are you lying? -- In the captivity of tourism -- Requiem in Hangzhou -- If forgotten, it will be saved -- Redemption omitted -- The invisibile library -- The empty throne -- Conversation on the ruins: Today it's over, but that didn't start just now -- Of course, it's the end -- The end? Oh yeah, business -- Mama -- The last Mandarin -- A dream in the courtyard of the Guangji Si -- In Suzhou, not at all in Suzhou: The road that leads there, 1 -- The road that leads there, 2 -- The road that leads there, 3 -- The spirit of China -- What remains: the end -- Notes -- Acknowledgements.