Herscht 07769

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Price
$16.95  $15.76
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date
Pages
512
Dimensions
5.3 X 7.9 X 1.2 inches | 0.88 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780811231534

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About the Author

The winner of the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature and the 2015 Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement, László Krasznahorkai was born in Gyula, Hungary.

Ottilie Mulzet is a literary critic and translator of Hungarian. Mulzet received the National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2019 for her translation of László Krasznahorkai's Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming and the Best Translated Book Award in 2014 for her translation of Krasznahorkai's Seiobo There Below.

Reviews
The universality of Krasznahorkai's vision rivals that of Gogol's Dead Souls and far surpasses allthe lesser concerns of contemporary writing.--W. G. Sebald
The contemporary Hungarian master of the apocalypse.--Susan Sontag
Krasznahorkai's latest postmodern experiment explores small-town discontents in post-unification eastern Germany. Brilliant, like all of Krasznahorkai's books--and just as challenging, though well worth the effort required.-- "Kirkus Reviews"
Krasznahorkai has come up with his own forms. There is nothing else like it in contemporary literature.--Adam Thirlwell "The New York Review of Books"
Krasznahorkai's brilliantly cacophonous novel, which conveys the sense that the end is already here, and that the trappings of civilization are easier to scrape away than paint from stone. This stands with Krasznahorkai's best work.-- "Publisher's Weekly"
"Krasznahorkai's work offers, to a degree rare in contemporary life, one of the central pleasures of fiction: an encounter with the otherness of other people. He's a universalist cut loose from the shibboleths of humanism."--Garth Risk Hallberg "The New York Times"