| The Last Wolf & Herman Contributor(s): Krasznahorkai, László (Author), Batki, John (Translator), Szirtes, George (Translator) |
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ISBN: 081122905X ISBN-13: 9780811229050 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $12.56 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Psychological - Fiction | Noir |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 4.4" W x 7.1" (0.25 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Last Wolf (translated by George Szirtes) is Krasznahorkai in a maddening nutshell--it features a classic obsessed narrator, a man hired (by mistake) to write the true tale of the last wolf in Spain. This miserable experience (being mistaken for another person, dragged about a cold foreign place, and appalled by a species's end) is narrated--all in a single sentence--as a sad looping tale, a howl more or less, in a dreary Berlin bar to a patently bored bartender. Herman (translated by John Batki), "a peerless virtuoso of trapping who guards the splendid mysteries of an ancient craft gradually sinking into permanent oblivion," is asked to clear a forest's last "noxious beasts." He begins with great zeal, although in time he "suspects that maybe he was 'on the wrong scent.'" Herman switches sides, deciding to track entirely new game ...
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Contributor Bio(s): Krasznahorkai, Laszlo: - László Krasznahorkai, described by James Wood in The New Yorker as an "obsessive, visionary," was born in Gyula, Hungary. He is the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize and was nominated again in 2018.Szirtes, George: - George Szirtes (b. 1948) is an award-winning poet and translator who settled in England after his family fled the Hungarian Uprising of 1956.Batki, John: - John Batki is a kilimologist, writer, translator, and visual artist. He was born in Hungary and has lived in the United States since age fourteen. |