Krasznahorkai's oeuvre has a particular focus on futility, that the good times are behind us, that the future is nonexistent. Yet, there is spiritual resistance to this futility through art. Art exists wholly outside the sphere of our otherwise banal existence. Like in Herscht 07769, the protagonist claims that listening to Bach is the solution to the apocalypse as his music reveals, through transcendental beauty, that there is more to existence than what we can be tangibly experienced. In War & War, prose is the salvation to the human condition.
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