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Author: László Krasznahorkai (New Directions) ,
Ottilie Mulzet
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Imprint: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Dimensions:
Width: 14.70cm
, Height: 5.10cm
, Length: 21.10cm
Weight: 0.793kg
ISBN: 9780811226646
ISBN 10: 0811226646
Pages: 576
Publication Date: 24 September 2019
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Replaced By: 9780811239707
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
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 The Hungarian master of the apocalypse. -- Susan Sontag His works tends to get passed around like rare currency. One of the most profoundly unsettling experiences I have had as a reader. -- James Wood One of the most mysterious artists now at work. -- Colm Toibin I've said a thousand times that I always wanted to write just one book. Now, with Baron, I can close this story. With this novel I can prove that I really wrote just one book in my life. This is the book-Satantango, Melancholy, War and War, and Baron. This is my one book. -- Laszlo Krasznahorkai - Paris Review Interview A vision of painstaking beauty. -- NPR If you're a fan of Krasznahorkai, you already know that you need to read this one: the final volume in his four-part series, in which the aging Baron Bela Wenckheim proceeds home to Hungary, to the highly absurd town of his birth. -- Emily Temple - LitHub The baron cuts a memorable figure, but the real star of Krasznahorkai's story is a philosopher who has cut himself off from society and lives in hermitage in a forest park, concerned with problems of being and nonbeing. In the end, the worlds the philosopher, the baron, and other characters inhabit are slated to disappear in a wall of flame. -- Kirkus
The Hungarian master of the apocalypse.--Susan Sontag A vision of painstaking beauty. One of the most mysterious artists now at work.--Colm T ib n His works tends to get passed around like rare currency. One of the most profoundly unsettling experiences I have had as a reader.--James Wood The New Yorker
One of the most mysterious artists now at work.--Colm T ib n The Hungarian master of the apocalypse.--Susan Sontag A vision of painstaking beauty. His works tends to get passed around like rare currency. One of the most profoundly unsettling experiences I have had as a reader.--James Wood The New Yorker
Author Information
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. Ottilie Mulzet is a literary critic and translator of Hungarian. Mulzet received the National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2019 for her translation of László Krasznahorkai's Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming and the Best Translated Book Award in 2014 for her translation of Krasznahorkai’s Seiobo There Below.
