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Herscht 07769 : Florian Herscht's Bach novel / László Krasznahorkai ; translated from the Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet.
Van Pelt Library PH3281.K8866 H4713 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Krasznahorkai, László, author.
- Series:
- New Directions paperbook ; 1608.
- New Directions paperbook ; 1608
- Standardized Title:
- Herscht 07769. English
- Language:
- English
- Hungarian
- Subjects (All):
- Neo-Nazism--Fiction.
- Neo-Nazism.
- Graffiti--Fiction.
- Graffiti.
- Germany--Fiction.
- Germany.
- Genre:
- Satirical fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 406 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2024.
- Language Note:
- In English; translated from the Hungarian.
- Summary:
- "The gentle giant Florian Herscht has a problem: having faithfully attended Herr Köhler's adult education classes in physics, he is convinced that disaster is imminent. And so he embarks upon a one-sided correspondence with Chancellor Angela Merkel, to convince her of the danger of the complete destruction of all physical matter. Florian works for the Boss (the head of a local neo-Nazi gang), who has taken him under his wing and gotten him work as a graffiti cleaner in the small eastern German town of Kana. The Boss is enraged by a graffiti artist who is defacing the various monuments to Johann Sebastian Bach in Thuringia with wolf emblems. A Bach fanatic and director of an amateur orchestra, the Boss is determined to catch the culprit with the help of his gang. Florian has no choice but to join the chase. Havoc ensues when real wolves are sighted in the area . . . Written in one cascading sentence with the power of atomic particles colliding, Krasznahorkai's novel is a tour de force, a morality play, a blistering satire, a hilarious and devastating encapsulation of our helplessness at the moral and environmental dilemmas we face today"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Originally published in 2021 as Herscht 07769: Florian Herscht Bach-regénye; elbeszélés by Magvető Kiadó, Budapest.
- ISBN:
- 9780811231534
- 0811231534
- OCLC:
- 1423498870
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