Herscht 07769 (Nobel Prize in Literature 2025) Krasznahorkai, László Hungarian-language books,Signed

Krasznahorkai, László: Herscht 07769 - Florian Herscht Bach-regénye. Budapest, 2021. Magvetö. 423 [9] p. First edition. Publisher, hardcover binding, paper dust jacket. Inscribed by the author. In 2022, the author signed and inscribed copie in person at the Book Week Literary Festival and Fair in Budapest's Vörösmarty Square. The gentle giant Florian Herscht has a problem: having faithfully attended Herr Köhler's adult education classes in physics, he is convinced that disaster is imminent. And so he embarks upon a one-sided correspondence with Chancellor Angela Merkel, to convince her of the danger of the complete destruction of all physical matter. Florian works for the Boss (the head of a local neo-Nazi gang), who has taken him under his wing and gotten him work as a graffiti cleaner in the small eastern German town of Kana. The Boss is enraged by a graffiti artist who is defacing the various monuments to Johann Sebastian Bach in Thuringia with wolf emblems. A Bach fanatic and director of an amateur orchestra, the Boss is determined to catch the culprit with the help of his gang. Florian has no choice but to join the chase. Havoc ensues when real wolves are sighted in the area . . . Written in one cascading sentence with the power of atomic particles colliding, Krasznahorkai's novel is a tour de force, a morality play, a blistering satire, a hilarious and devastating encapsulation of our helplessness at the moral and environmental dilemmas we face today. László Krasznahorkai (1954-) is a Nobel Prize winning Hungarian novelist and screenwriter known for difficult and demanding novels, often labeled postmodern, with dystopian and melancholic themes. Several of his works, including his novels Satantango (1985) and The Melancholy of Resistance (1989), have been adapted into feature films by Béla Tarr. He was awarded the Man Booker International Prize in 2015 and was frequently mentioned a favourite to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, which he did in 2025. ( O,O ) /)__) , ,