The Last Wolf & Herman by Krasznahorkai, László

The Last Wolf & Herman

The Last Wolf (translated by George Szirtes) is Krasznahorkai in a maddening nutshell--it features a classic obsessed...
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Author: László Krasznahorkai
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Language: English
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The Last Wolf & Herman by Krasznahorkai, László

The Last Wolf & Herman

$21.27

The Last Wolf & Herman

$21.27
Author: László Krasznahorkai
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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 ...



Author: László Krasznahorkai
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 12/17/2019
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.10h x 4.40w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780811229050

About the Author
Szirtes, George: - George Szirtes (b. 1948) is an award-winning poet and translator who settled in England after his family fled the Hungarian Uprising of 1956. His translation of Satantango by László Krasznahorkai won the 2013 Best Translated Book Award.Batki, John: - John Batki is a kilimologist, writer, translator, and visual artist. He was born in Hungary and has lived in the United States since age fourteen.Krasznahorkai, László: -

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.

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