- Fiction, Hungary, Literature, Literary Fiction
The gentle giant Florian Herscht has a problem: having faithfully attended Herr Köhler’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.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
- cooloverwhelming
- rawmeticulous
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- Author
- László Krasznahorkai
- First published
- 2021
- Pages
- 448
- Publisher
- Profile Books Limited, New Directions, Bompiani
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- Italian, hun, English
- ISBN
- 9780811231541
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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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