Publication Date: 03/10/2024 ISBN: 9781800815056 Category:

Herscht 07769

Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Ottilie Mulzet

Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Publication Date: 03/10/2024 ISBN: 9781800815056 Category:
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The International Booker Award winner’s breathtaking new novel about neo-Nazis, particle physics, and graffiti vandalism

‘Propulsive and revelatory’ The New York Times

‘A work of genius’ Telegraph

Florian Herscht has a problem: having faithfully attended Herr Koehler’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.

Publisher Review

Remarkable * Times Literary Supplement * Propulsive and revelatory … Krasznahorkai is a universalist cut loose from the shibboleths of humanism * The New York Times * Praise for Laszlo 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 Laszlo 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 Herscht 07769 is a work of genius, astonishingly well translated by Ottilie Mulzet: I can only imagine the labour and dedication involved in capturing the rhythms of Krasznahorkai’s clauses, their strange and captivating music — 5-star review * Telegraph *

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