The World Goes On

WINNER OF THE 2025 NOBEL PRIZE

A magnificent new collection of stories by “the contemporary Hungarian master of apocalypse” (Susan Sontag)

In The World Goes On, a narrator first speaks directly, then tells eleven unforgettable stories, and then bids farewell (“for here I would leave this earth and these stars, because I would take nothing with me”). As László Krasznahoraki himself explains: “Each text is about drawing our attention away from this world, speeding our body toward annihilation, ...