The Last Wolf & Herman

13 December 2019

Territory Rights — Worldwide including Canada, but excluding the British Commonwealth.

László Krasznahorkai (Author), John Batki (Translator), George Szirtes (Translator)

Description

Now in paperback, two novellas from the Hungarian master László Krasznahorkai—“one of the most mysterious artists now at work” (Colm Toíbín) 

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 another person, dragged about a cold foreign place, and appalled by a species’s end) is narrated—all in a single sentence—as a sad looping tale, a howl more or less, in a dreary Berlin bar to a patently bored bartender.

Herman (translated by John Batki), “a peerless virtuoso of trapping who guards the splendid mysteries of an ancient craft gradually sinking into permanent oblivion,” is asked to clear a forest’s last “noxious beasts.” He begins with great zeal, although in time he “suspects that maybe he was ‘on the wrong scent.’” Herman switches sides, deciding to track entirely new game …

 

 

 

Reviews

"Gateway drugs to Krasznahorkai’s work: As the very best fiction always does, they bring another world—an alien world, let’s say—into our own." — Christine Smallwood, Harper’s

"Krasznahorkai, poet of the Apocalypse, stands alone relentlessly, if gleefully, offering wonders." — The Economist

"Together, ‘The Last Wolf’ and ‘Herman’ raise a set of spiritual questions that affirms their author as one of the most important — and eccentric — writers working today." — Hari Kunzru, The Spectator

Also By: László Krasznahorkai View all by author...

Also By: John Batki View all by author...

  • Spadework for a Palace

    László Krasznahorkai, John Batki

    Hardback, 2022

    A joyful ode—in a single soaring, crazy sentence—to the interconnectedness of great (and mad) minds
  • Spadework for a Palace

    László Krasznahorkai, John Batki

    E Book, 2022

    A joyful ode—in a single soaring, crazy sentence—to the interconnectedness of great (and mad) minds
  • Chasing Homer

    László Krasznahorkai, John Batki, Max Neumann, Szilveszter Miklós

    Hardback, 2021

    A classic escape nightmare, Chasing Homer is sped on not only by Krasznahorkai’s signature velocity, but also by a unique musical score and intense illustrations
  • Chasing Homer

    László Krasznahorkai, John Batki, Max Neumann, Szilveszter Miklós

    E Book, 2021

    A classic escape nightmare, Chasing Homer is sped on not only by Krasznahorkai’s signature velocity, but also by a unique musical score and intense illustrations

Also By: George Szirtes View all by author...

  • The World Goes On

    László Krasznahorkai, Ottilie Mulzet, George Szirtes

    Third Edition, Paperback, 2024

  • The World Goes On

    László Krasznahorkai, Ottilie Mulzet, George Szirtes

    Third Edition, E Book

Paperback

9780811229050

114 x 185 mm • 128 pages

£10.99

Add to Basket

Ebook

9780811226097

Powered by Glassboxx

£10.99

Add to Basket