The Last Wolf & Herman

Informationen zum Autor WINNER OF THE 2025 NOBEL PRIZE  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. Klappentext The Last Wolf (translated by George Szirtes) is Krasznahorkai in a maddening nutshell-it features a classic obsessed narrator, a man hired (by mistake) to write the true tale of the last wolf in Spain. This miserable experience (being mistaken for another person, dragged about a cold foreign place, and appalled by a species's end) is narrated-all in a single sentence-as a sad looping tale, a howl more or less, in a dreary Berlin bar to a patently bored bartender. Herman (translated by John Batki), "a peerless virtuoso of trapping who guards the splendid mysteries of an ancient craft gradually sinking into permanent oblivion," is asked to clear a forest's last "noxious beasts." He begins with great zeal, although in time he "suspects that maybe he was 'on the wrong scent.'" Herman switches sides, deciding to track entirely new game ...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Laszlo Krasznahorkai, László Krasznahorkai, John Batki, George Szirtes
• Con la collaborazione di: John Batki (Traduzione), George Szirtes (Traduzione)
• Editore: New Directions
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 31.12.2019
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi
• EAN: 9780811229050
• ISBN: 978-0-8112-2905-0
• Categorie: Eastern Europe, FICTION / Satire, Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung, Ungarn / Roman, Erzählung, Ungarische Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung, Gogol, Man Booker International Prize, Hungary, Nobel prize, Colm Toibin, Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch, nicht nach Genre, Nobelpreis für Literatur 2025, Bela Tarr, man booker winner