02284cam a22003858i 4500 23774354 US-DLC 20251201071721.0 240712s2024 nyu 000 1 eng 2024031971 9780811231534 (paperback) 9780811231541 (ebook) 23774354 au eng rda au eng hun pcc Alfaisal Main Library PH3281.K8866 H4713 2024 Krasznahorkai, Lâaszlâo, author. Herscht 07769. English Herscht 07769 : a novel / Lâaszlâo Krasznahorkai ; translated by Ottilie Mulzet. 2024 2410 New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2024. 406 pages text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "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"-- Satirical fiction. lcgft Novels. lcgft Print books. local 4 Mulzet, Ottilie, translator. lcc BOOKS 608048 608048 0 0 lcc 0 0 AU AU GEN 2025-12-01 0 PH3281.K8866 H4713 2024 AU00000000020947 2025-12-01 07:19:16 120.00 2025-12-01 BOOKS