- Finno-ugric languages, Fiction, general, Hungary, fiction, City and town life
"Set in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin-like figure, Baron Bela Wenckheim, who decides to return at the end of his life to the provincial Hungarian town of his birth.
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- Author
- László Krasznahorkai
- First published
- 2016
- Pages
- 576
- Publisher
- Profile Books Limited, Companhia das Letras, New Directions
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- hun, Portuguese, English
- ISBN
- 9781781258927
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Krasznahorkai László (született 1954. január 5-én) magyar regényíró és forgatókönyvíró. Krasznahorkai nehéz és igényes, gyakran posztmodernnek bélyegzett regényeiről ismert, amelyek disztópikus és melankolikus témákat boncolgatnak. Számos művéből, köztük a *Sátántangó* (1985) és *Az ellenállás melankóliája* (1989) című regényeiből Tarr Béla rendező filmet készített. 2025-ben irodalmi Nobel-díjat kapott. ---------- László Krasznahorkai (born 5 January 1954) is a Hungarian novelist and screenwriter. Krasznahorkai is known for his difficult and demanding novels, often labeled postmodern, which explore dystopian and melancholic themes. Several of his works, including his novels *Satantango* (198
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