Baron Wenckheim's homecoming / László Krasznahorkai ; translated from the Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krasznahorkai, László, author.

Contributor:

Mulzet, Ottilie, translator.

Standardized Title:

Báró Wenckheim hazatér. English

Language:

English

Hungarian

Subjects (All):

City and town life--Fiction.

City and town life.

Homecoming.

Homecoming--Fiction.

Eccentrics and eccentricities--Fiction.

Eccentrics and eccentricities.

Hungary--Fiction.

Hungary.

Gossip.

Genre:

Fiction.

Dystopian fiction.

Physical Description:

558 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

New York : New Directions Publishing, 2019.

Language Note:

Translated from the Hungarian.

Summary:

"Set in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin-like figure, Baron Bela Wenckheim, who decides to return at the end of his life 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. All along, 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 immunize 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"Originally published in Hungarian as Báró Wenckheim hazatér"--Title page verso.

Translated from the Hungarian.

ISBN:

9780811226646

0811226646

OCLC:

1057376998