László Krasznahorkai

Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming

Sprache: Englisch.

kartoniert , 576 Seiten

ISBN 0811239705

EAN 9780811239707

Veröffentlicht 16. Dezember 2025

Verlag/Hersteller New Directions Publishing Corporation

Übersetzer Übersetzt von Ottilie Mulzet

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Beschreibung

Set in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin-like figure, Baron Béla Wenckheim, who returns at the end of his life to his provincial Hungarian hometown. Having escaped from his many casino debts in Buenos Aires, where he was living in exile, he longs to be reunited with his high-school sweetheart Marika. Confusions abound, and 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 attempts to immunize himself from thought. Spectacular actions are staged as death and the abyss loom over the unsuspecting townfolk.

Portrait

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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