The Last Wolf & Herman

Reviews

"La´szlo´ Krasznahorkai is a visionary writer of extraordinary intensity and vocal range who captures the texture of present-day existence in scenes that are terrifying, strange, appallingly comic, and often shatteringly beautiful: magnificent works of deep imagination and complex passions, in which the human comedy verges painfully onto transcendence." — Marina Warner, Announcing the 2015 Man Booker International Prize

"Don’t underestimate the pair; they might look flimsy enough to finish during a long commute but they’ll haunt you—or perhaps hunt you—long after the final full-stop has been left behind." — Electric Literature

"Krasznahorkai’s method is to examine reality “to the point of madness” and he does so with majestic style and black comedy." — Luke Brown, Financial Times

"Slow, relentless forces permeate the world of László Krasznahorkai; his characters are subject to glacial currents that bear them ever onwards, an inch at a time, toward a horizon they constantly imagine but never actually behold. In so doing, they cry, or laugh, or cry laughing, or carry out the timeworn repetitions that make a life, until the moment they come up against the horizon." — Camille Gajewski, Music & Literature

"Rather than the stoic asceticism of Kafka's longer stories, these are absurd as they are thrilling, with the richest possible representation of figures backing themselves into corners and staying there, of contemplating the self as absurd." — Sydney Morning Herald

"Wild and wonderful." — Adam Thirlwell, The Guardian

"Krasznahorkai shows himself to be a writer of immense talent, capable of creating stories that are both unforgettably visceral and beautiful on the page." — Claire Kohda Hazelton, The Guardian

"Hungarian maestro László Krasznahorkai is laconic and shrewd, as practical as he is existential, capable of wresting huge laughs as well as immense profundity from the commonplace and the way in which we choose to respond to it." — Eileen Battersby, The Irish Times

"There are three stages of reading Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s The Last Wolf, a 76-page, one-sentence-long novel: disbelief, panic and exhilaration." — Nicole Lamy, The New York Times

"One of the most profoundly unsettling experiences I have had as a reader." — James Wood, The New Yorker

"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

"Krasznahorkai is alone among European novelists now in his intensity and originality. One of the most mysterious artists now at work." — Colm Tóibín