Spadework for a Palace

by László Krasznahorkai

Spadework for a Palace bears the subtitle "Entering the Madness of Others" and offers an epigraph: "Reality is no obstacle." Indeed. This high-octane obsessive rant vaults over all obstacles, fueled by the id es fixe of a "gray little librarian" with fallen arches whose name--mr herman melvill--is merely one of the coincidences binding him to his lodestar Herman Melville ("I too resided on East 26th Street...I, too, had worked for a while at the Customs...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811228401
• ISBN13: 9780811228404
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.2"