Laszlo Krasznahorkai - Böcker

Han är författare och får i uppdrag att skriva en text om den sista vargen i Extremadura, ett högslättsområde som tidigare var utposten för de spanska erövrarna. Det är högst ovisst varför han, bosatt i Berlin, fått uppdraget. Av misstag? Har han ...

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Fru Pflaum sitter på ett försenat tåg på väg hem och kan inte låta bli att tycka att alla hennes medpassagerare är sällsynt sorgliga skepnader. Så sjaskiga och obetydliga. Väl hemma tvingas hon ta itu med sin son Valuska, som gått in i sin egen dr...

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Translated by George Szirtes From the winner of the Man Booker International Prize In the darkening embers of a Communist utopia, life in a desolate Hungarian town has come to a virtual standstill. Flies buzz, spiders weave, water drips and animal...

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En forntida Buddha restaureras, en skådespelare repeterar, en barockmusikkännare undervisar några gamla bybor, turister tränger sig för nära ett hemligt skrin. Alla ingår de på ett märkligt sätt i berättelsen om den japanska gudinnan Seiobo. Här m...

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Shortlisted for The Man Booker International Prize 2018 A Hungarian interpreter obsessed with waterfalls, at the edge of the abyss in his own mind, wanders the chaotic streets of Shanghai. A traveller, reeling from the sights and sounds of Varanas...

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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 t...

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Known for his brilliantly dark fictional visions, Laszlo Krasznahorkai is one of the most respected European writers of his generation and the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. Here, he brings us on a journey through China at the ...

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En forntida Buddha restaureras, en skådespelare repeterar, en barockmusikkännare undervisar några gamla bybor, turister tränger sig för nära ett hemligt skrin. Alla ingår de på ett märkligt sätt i berättelsen om den japanska gudinnan Seiobo. Här m...

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Set in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin-like figure, Baron BZla Wenckheim, who returns at the end of his life to his provincial Hungarian hometown. Having escaped from his many casino debts in Bu...

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This surreal novel recounts the events surrounding the arrival of a mysterious circus in a small Hungarian town. Word spreads that the circus folk have a sinister purpose, and the frightened citizens cling to any manifestation of order they can fi...

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Winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize War & War begins at a point of danger: on a dark train platform Korim is on the verge of being attacked and robbed by thuggish teenagers. From here, we are carried along by the insistent voice ...

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'Baron Wenkcheim's Homecoming is a fitting capstone to Krasznahorkai's tetralogy, one of the supreme achievements of contemporary literature. Now seems as good a time as any to name him among our greatest living novelists.' Paris Review Hailed int...

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Winner of the 2015 Man Booker International PrizeThe Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in a small Hungarian town.A circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the...

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Kana wäre eine vergessene Stadt irgendwo in Thüringen, hätte ihre abgelegene Trostlosigkeit nicht Neonazis angelockt. Die Einwohner betrachten sie mit Angst und Argwohn. Allein Florian Herscht meint, er habe Freunde auf beiden Seiten: ein hilfsber...

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Han är författare och får i uppdrag att skriva en text om den sista vargen i Extremadura, ett högslättsområde som tidigare var utposten för de spanska erövrarna. Det är högst ovisst varför han, bosatt i Berlin, fått uppdraget. Av misstag? Har han ...

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Motståndets melankoli är en surrealistisk roman i Gogols anda som utspelar sig i en liten ungersk stad. Fru Plauf sitter på ett försenat tåg på väg hem och kan inte låta bli att tycka att alla hennes medpassagerare är sorgliga skepnader. Så fattig...

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The Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in a small Hungarian town. A circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the largest whale in the world, arrives in the dead...

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A novel of awesome beauty and power by the Hungarian master, Laszlo Krasznahorkai. Winner of a 2005 PEN Translation Fund Award. "War and War," Laszlo Krasznahorkai's second novel in English from New Directions, begins at a point of dange...

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Now in paperback, Satantango , the novel that inspired Béla Tarr's classic film, is proof that the devil has all the good times. Set in an isolated hamlet, the novel unfolds over the course of a few rain-soaked days. Only a dozen inhabitants remai...

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In The World Goes On , a narrator first speaks directly, then tells eleven unforgettable stories, and then bids farewell ("for here I would leave this earth and these stars, because I would take nothing with me"). As László Krasznahoraki...

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The Last Wolf , translated by George Szirtes,¿features a classic, obsessed Krasznahorkai narrator, a man hired to write (by mistake, by a glitch of fate) the true tale of the last wolf of Extremadura, a barren stretch of Spain. This miserable expe...

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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 idees fixe of a "...

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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...

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In The Bill, Laszlo Krasznahorkai's madly lucid voice pours forth in a single, vertiginous, eleven-page sentence addressing Palma Vecchio, a sixteenth-century Venetian painter. Peering out from the pages are Vecchio's voluptuous, bare-breasted blo...

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Winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize Beauty, in Laszlo Krasznahorkai's new novel, reflects, however fleeting, the sacred - even if we are mostly unable to bear it. In Seiobo There Below we see the Japanese goddess Seiobo returning to ...

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Winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize The Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in a small Hungarian town. A circus, promising to display the stuffed body of t...

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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 d...

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Winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize Beauty, in Laszlo Krasznahorkai's new novel, reflects, however fleeting, the sacred - even if we are mostly unable to bear it. In Seiobo There Below we see the Japanese goddess Seiobo returning to ...

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Winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize War & War begins at a point of danger: on a dark train platform Korim is on the verge of being attacked and robbed by thuggish teenagers. From here, we are carried along by the insistent voice of t...

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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 d...

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