The Manhattan Plan

László Krasznahorkai has never let the reader close to him. In New York, however, his journey crossed the path of Herman Melville, finding a creator in him whose fate he could only understand if he declared his own. He visited the residences of Moby Dick’s writer, began to follow his daily routes, immersed in his biography, to finally face the dramatic fact, Melville’s immeasurable loneliness and madness. László Krasznahorkai's new book talks about the coincidences and destinies that lead a person - in this case him - to a vital decision. His work is a dialogue of maps, spaces and images, where the radically open text of the confession is offset by images, intense photographs by Ornan Rotem that capture the writer’s life in New York and the various stages of his investigation. In addition to all the personal aspects of the Manhattan Plan, there is also a city diary. In it, we are in perhaps the most exciting metropolis in the world, in a maze of mysterious connections, from which the way out we would least expect shows the way out: the author is Krasznahorka himself, with the announcement of a new work.