Herscht 07769

Herscht 07769

Krasznahorkai, Laszlo

$322.00 MXN

Sinopsis

WINNER OF THE 2025 NOBEL PRIZE
A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024
A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF 2024

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.

Editorial:
New Directions
Materia
Literatura europea
ISBN:
978-0-8112-3153-4
Páginas:
416
Encuadernación:
Pasta blanda
Idioma:
Inglés

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