02190cam a22003498i 450000100090000000300070000900500170001600800410003301000170007402000310009102000270012203500130014904000210016204100130018304200080019605000290020410000420023324000280027524500910030326000090039426300090040326400620041230000140047433600260048833700280051433800270054252011640056965500300173365500190176365500240178270000340180623774354US-DLC20251201071721.0240712s2024    nyu           000 1 eng    a  2024031971  a9780811231534q(paperback)  z9780811231541q(ebook)  a23774354  aaubengerdacau1 aenghhun  apcc00aPH3281.K8866bH4713 20241 aKrasznahorkai, Lâaszlâo,eauthor.10aHerscht 07769.lEnglish10aHerscht 07769 :ba novel /cLâaszlâo Krasznahorkai ; translated by Ottilie Mulzet.  c2024  a2410 1aNew York :bNew Directions Publishing Corporation,c2024.  a406 pages  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  a"The gentle giant Florian Herscht has a problem: having faithfully attended Herr Kèohler'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"-- 7aSatirical fiction.2lcgft 7aNovels.2lcgft 0aPrint books.2local1 aMulzet, Ottilie,etranslator.