Name: Herscht 07769
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Author: László Krasznahorkai

Type

Physical Book

Author

László Krasznahorkai

Publisher

New Directions

Year

2024

Language

English

Pages

512

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.1x13.5x3 cm

ISBN13

9780811231534

Synopsis "Herscht 07769"

The National Book Award winner’s breathtaking new novel about neo-Nazis, particle physics, and Johann Sebastian Bach

A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024

A PUBLISHERS WEEKY BEST BOOK OF 2024

The gentle giant Florian Herscht has a problem: having faithfully attended Herr Köhler’s adult education classes in physics, he is convinced that disaster is imminent. And so, he embarks upon a one-sided correspondence with Chancellor Angela Merkel, to convince her of the danger of the complete destruction of all physical matter. Otherwise, he works for the Boss (the head of a local neo-Nazi gang), who has taken him under his wing and gotten him work as a graffiti cleaner and also a one-room apartment in the small eastern German town of Kana. The Boss is enraged by a graffiti artist who, with wolf emblems, is defacing all the various monuments to Johann Sebastian Bach in Thuringia. A Bach fanatic and director of an amateur orchestra, he is determined to catch the culprit with the help of his gang, and Florian has no choice but to join the chase. The situation becomes even more frightening, and havoc ensues, when real wolves are sighted in the area…

Written in one cascading sentence with the power of atomic particles colliding, Krasznahorkai’s novel is a tour de force, a morality play, a blistering satire, a devastating encapsulation of our helplessness when confronted with the moral and environmental dilemmas we face.

László Krasznahorkai

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László Krasznahorkai (Gyula, Hungría, 1954) recorrió durante años el país después de estudiar en Budapest y ejerció diversas profesiones en pueblos y ciudades de provincias. Acantilado ha publicado Melancolía de la resistencia (2001)—con la que se presentó a los lectores en lengua española—, Al Norte la montaña, al Sur el lago, al Oeste el camino, al Este el río (2005), Guerra y guerra (2009), Ha llegado Isaías (2009), Y Seiobo descendió a la Tierra (2015), Tango satánico (2017), Relaciones misericordiosas (2023) y El barón Wenckheim vuelve a casa (2024). Varias de sus obras han sido llevadas al cine. En 2004 recibió del Gobierno húngaro el Premio Kossuth, uno de los más prestigiosos de su país, por el conjunto de su obra; en 2015, el Man Booker International; en 2021, el Premio Austríaco de Literatura Europea, y en 2024, el Premio Formentor de las Letras.

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