László Krasznahorkai
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
558 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Set in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin-like figure, Baron Bela Wenckheim, who decides to return at the end of his life to the provincial Hungarian town of his birth. Having escaped from his many casino debts in Buenos Aires, where he was living in exile, he wishes to be reunited with his high school sweetheart Marika. What follows is an endless storm of gossip, con men, and local politicians, vividly...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
91 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this thrilling chase narrative, a hunted being escapes certain death at breakneck speed-- careening through Europe, heading blindly South. Faster and faster, escaping the assassins, our protagonist flies forward, blending into crowds, adjusting to terrains, hopping on and off ferries, always desperately trying to stay a step ahead of certain death: the past did not exist, only what was current existed-- a prisoner of the instant, rushing into...
4) Satantango
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Set in an isolated hamlet, Satantango unfolds over the course of a few rain-soaked days. Only a dozen inhabitants remain in the bleak village, rank with the stench of failed schemes, betrayals, failure, infidelity, sudden hopes, and aborted dreams. At the center of Satantango is the eponymous drunken dance."--Page [i].
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
96 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Spadework for a Palace bears the subtitle "Entering the Madness of Others" and offers an epigraph: "Reality is no obstacle." Indeed. This high-octane obsessive rant vaults over all obstacles, fueled by the idées fixe of a "gray little librarian" with fallen arches whose name-mr herman melvill-is merely one of the coincidences binding him to his lodestar Herman Melville ("I too resided on East 26th Street...I, too, had worked for a while at the Customs...
