Herscht 07769

By (author) Krasznahorkai Laszlo; Translated by Mulzet Ottilie
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A masterpiece of form and fiction as one of our greatest living writers tackles our fears of environmental disaster.
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The International Booker Award winner''s breathtaking new novel about neo-Nazis, particle physics, and graffiti vandalism ''Propulsive and revelatory'' The New York Times ''A work of genius'' Telegraph Florian Herscht has a problem: having faithfully attended Herr Köhler''s classes in particle physics for two years, he is convinced that global cataclysm is imminent. And so he embarks upon a one-sided correspondence with Chancellor Angela Merkel, hoping to convince her of the imminent danger of the complete destruction of all physical matter. Written in one cascading sentence with the force of atomic particles colliding, Krasznahorkai''s latest novel is a tour de force, a morality play of blistering satire, a devastating encapsulation of our helplessness in the face of the moral and environmental dilemmas we face.
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Herscht 07769 is a work of genius, astonishingly well translated by Ottilie Mulzet: I can only imagine the labour and dedication involved in capturing the rhythms of Krasznahorkai''s clauses, their strange and captivating music
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Remarkable
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Propulsive and revelatory ... Krasznahorkai is a universalist cut loose from the shibboleths of humanism
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A humane, compelling, intriguing novel ... comedic, if macabre, and cinematic
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A beast of a book ... vanishingly rare and beguiling
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A novel that reaches for wonder and wisdom, and a paean to depth and meaning amid violence and death
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Innovative to a fault
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A tour-de-force, satirical novel
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Praise for László Krasznahorkai
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The contemporary master of the apocalypse
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Krasznahorkai throws down a challenge: raise your game or get your coat ... the intensity of his commitment to the art of fiction is indisputable ... exhilarating, even euphoric
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László Krasznahorkai writes prose of breathtaking energy and beauty ... He has elevated the novel form and is to be ranked among the great European novelists
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The universality of Krasznahorkai''s vision rivals that of Gogol''s Dead Souls and far surpasses all the lesser concerns of contemporary writing
Biographical note:
László Krasznahorkai has won the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature for Baron Wenckheim''s Homecoming, the 2015 Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement and the 2024 Prix Formentor for lifetime achievement. Several of his most famous novels including Satantango and The Melancholy of Resistance were turned into films by the director Béla Tarr. Ottilie Mulzet is a literary critic and translator of Hungarian. She received the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature in and the 2014 Best Translated Book Award.
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A masterpiece of form and fiction as one of our greatest living writers tackles our fears of environmental disaster