Baron Wenckheim's homecoming
Báró Wenckheim hazatér. English
Krasznahorkai, Laszlo
creator
author.
Mulzet, Ottilie
translator.
text
Fiction.
Dystopian fiction.
enk
London
Tuskar Rock Press
2019
monographic
eng
hun
558 pages ; 25 cm.
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.
László Krasznahorkai ; translated by Ottilie Mulzet.
Originally published in Hungarian as B©Łr©đ Wenckheim hazat©♭r.
Translated from the Hungarian.
Winner of Man Booker International Prize.
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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
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