Herscht 07769

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2025

Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Ottilie Mulzet, Ottilie Mulzet

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Tuskar Rock
07 January 2025

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Mathematics & Sciences

Florian Herscht has a problem: having faithfully attended Herr KÃ¶hler's classes in particle physics for two years, he is convinced that global cataclysm is imminent. And so he embarks upon a one-sided correspondence with Chancellor Angela Merkel, hoping to convince her of the imminent danger of the complete destruction of all physical matter.

Written in one cascading sentence with the force of atomic particles colliding, Krasznahorkai's latest novel is a tour de force, a morality play of blistering satire, a devastating encapsulation of our helplessness in the face of the moral and environmental dilemmas we face.

By: Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Contributions by: Ottilie Mulzet
Translated by: Ottilie Mulzet
Imprint: Tuskar Rock
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Main
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 42mm
Weight: 620g
ISBN: 9781800815056
ISBN 10: 1800815050
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 07 January 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print

Lszl Krasznahorkai has won the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature for Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming, the 2015 Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement and the 2024 Prix Formentor for lifetime achievement. Several of his most famous novels including Satantango and The Melancholy of Resistance were turned into films by the director Bla Tarr.Ottilie Mulzet is a literary critic and translator of Hungarian. She received the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature in and the 2014 Best Translated Book Award.

Reviews for Herscht 07769: Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2025

Praise for László Krasznahorkai * : * Krasznahorkai throws down a challenge: raise your game or get your coat ... the intensity of his commitment to the art of fiction is indisputable ... exhilarating, even euphoric -- Hari Kunzru László Krasznahorkai writes prose of breathtaking energy and beauty ... He has elevated the novel form and is to be ranked among the great European novelists -- Colm Toibin The universality of Krasznahorkai's vision rivals that of Gogol's Dead Souls and far surpasses all the lesser concerns of contemporary writing -- W.G. Sebald