Baron Wenckheim's homecoming /
Krasznahorkai, Laszlo,
Baron Wenckheim's homecoming / László Krasznahorkai ; translated by Ottilie Mulzet. - London : Tuskar Rock Press, 2019. - 558 pages ; 25 cm.
Originally published in Hungarian as B©Łr©đ Wenckheim hazat©♭r.
Winner of the National Book Award for Translated Literature 2019. Nearing the end of his life, Baron Bela Wenckheim decides to return to the provincial Hungarian town of his birth. Having escaped from his many casino debts in Buenos Aires, where he was living in exile, he wishes to be reunited with his high-school sweetheart Marika. What follows is an endless storm of gossip, con men and local politicians, vividly evoking the small town?s alternately drab and absurd existence. Meanwhile, the Professor - a world-famous natural scientist who studies mosses and inhabits a bizarre Zen-like shack in a desolate area outside of town - offers long rants and disquisitions on his own attempts to immunise himself from thought. Spectacular actions are staged, death and the abyss loom, until finally doom is brought down on the unsuspecting residents of the town. Hailed internationally as perhaps the most important novel of the young twenty-first century, Baron Wenckheim?s Homecoming is the culmination of Laszlo Krasznahorkai?s remarkable and singular career. ?I?ve said a thousand times that I always wanted to write just one book. Now, with Baron, I can close this story. With this novel I can prove that I really wrote just one book in my life. This is the book - Satantango, Melancholy, War & War, and Baron. This is my one book.? Laszlo Krasnahorkai.
Translated from the Hungarian.
Winner of Man Booker International Prize.
9781781258910
be2020005207
GBB9F1711 bnb
019531778 Uk
Hungarian fiction--Translations into English.
Scientists--Fiction.
Gossip--Fiction.
City and town life--Fiction.
Eccentrics and eccentricities--Fiction.
Homecoming--Fiction.
Hungary.
Hungary--Social conditions--Fiction.
Hungary--Fiction.
Fiction.
Dystopian fiction.
894.51134
Baron Wenckheim's homecoming / László Krasznahorkai ; translated by Ottilie Mulzet. - London : Tuskar Rock Press, 2019. - 558 pages ; 25 cm.
Originally published in Hungarian as B©Łr©đ Wenckheim hazat©♭r.
Winner of the National Book Award for Translated Literature 2019. Nearing the end of his life, Baron Bela Wenckheim decides to return to the provincial Hungarian town of his birth. Having escaped from his many casino debts in Buenos Aires, where he was living in exile, he wishes to be reunited with his high-school sweetheart Marika. What follows is an endless storm of gossip, con men and local politicians, vividly evoking the small town?s alternately drab and absurd existence. Meanwhile, the Professor - a world-famous natural scientist who studies mosses and inhabits a bizarre Zen-like shack in a desolate area outside of town - offers long rants and disquisitions on his own attempts to immunise himself from thought. Spectacular actions are staged, death and the abyss loom, until finally doom is brought down on the unsuspecting residents of the town. Hailed internationally as perhaps the most important novel of the young twenty-first century, Baron Wenckheim?s Homecoming is the culmination of Laszlo Krasznahorkai?s remarkable and singular career. ?I?ve said a thousand times that I always wanted to write just one book. Now, with Baron, I can close this story. With this novel I can prove that I really wrote just one book in my life. This is the book - Satantango, Melancholy, War & War, and Baron. This is my one book.? Laszlo Krasnahorkai.
Translated from the Hungarian.
Winner of Man Booker International Prize.
9781781258910
be2020005207
GBB9F1711 bnb
019531778 Uk
Hungarian fiction--Translations into English.
Scientists--Fiction.
Gossip--Fiction.
City and town life--Fiction.
Eccentrics and eccentricities--Fiction.
Homecoming--Fiction.
Hungary.
Hungary--Social conditions--Fiction.
Hungary--Fiction.
Fiction.
Dystopian fiction.
894.51134
