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The Last Wolf & Herman

Laszlo Krasznahorkai

John Batki

George Szirtes

In The Last Wolf, a philosophy professor is mistakenly hired to write the true tale of the last wolf of Extremadura, a barren stretch of Spain. His miserable experience is narrated in a single, rolling sentence to a patently bored bartender in a dreary Berlin bar.

In Herman, a master trapper is asked to clear a forest's last 'noxious beasts.' Herman begins with great zeal, although in time he switches sides, deciding to track entirely new game... In Herman II, the same events are related from the perspective of strange visitors to the region, a group of hyper-sexualised aristocrats who interrupt their orgies to pitch in with the manhunt of poor Herman...

These intense, perfect novellas, full of Krasznhorkai's signature sense of foreboding and dark irony, are perfect examples of his craft.

  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : JAN 4, 2018
  • Imprint : Tuskar Rock
  • Page Extent : 128
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781781258149
  • Price : INR 399
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Laszlo Krasznahorkai

Beautiful ... through Mulzet's exceptional work, we can appreciate the enchantment of language that is attentive to precise details

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John Batki

László Krasznahorkai was born in Gyula, Hungary, in 1954. He is the author of The Last Wolf, War and War, The Melancholy of Resistance, Seiobo There Below, all published by Serpent's Tail, and several other works. He has won numerous prizes, including the International Man Booker Prize 2015, 2013 Best Translated Book Award, and 1993 Best Book of the Year Award in Germany.

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George Szirtes

GEORGE SZIRTES' many books of poetry have won prizes including the T. S. Eliot Prize (2004) for which he was again shortlisted for Bad Machine (2013). His translation of Satantango by László Krasznahorkai (whom he interviewed for The White Review) was awarded the Best Translated Book Award in the US. He is also the translator of Sandor Marai and Magda Szabo. The Photographer at Sixteen is his first venture into prose writing of his own.

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