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Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming

Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming

Name: Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming
ISBN: 9780811226653

László Krasznahorkai, Ottilie Mulzet (translation)

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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, & local politicians, vividly evoking the small town’s alternately drab & absurd existence.

All along, the Professor—a world-famous natural scientist who studies mosses & inhabits a bizarre Zen-like shack in a desolate area outside of town—offers long rants & disquisitions on his own attempts to immunize himself from thought. Spectacular actions are staged, death & the abyss loom, until finally doom is brought down on the unsuspecting residents of the town.

الفئات:

Fiction

عام:

2019

الناشر:

New Directions

اللغة:

english

ISBN 10:

0811226654

ISBN 13:

9780811226653