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The Last Wolf & Herman

Winner Of The Nobel Prize In Literature 2025

by László Krasznahorkai
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FROM THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2025

In The Last Wolf, a philosophy professor is mistakenly hired to write the true tale of the last wolf of Extremadura, a barren stretch of Spain. His miserable experience is narrated in a single, rolling sentence to a patently bored bartender in a dreary Berlin bar.

In Herman, a master trapper is asked to clear a forest's last 'noxious beasts.' Herman begins with great zeal, although in time he switches sides, deciding to track entirely new game...

In Herman II, the same events are related from the perspective of strange visitors to the region, a group of hyper-sexualised aristocrats who interrupt their orgies to pitch in with the manhunt of poor Herman...

These intense, perfect novellas, full of Krasznhorkai's signature sense of foreboding and dark irony, are perfect examples of his craft.

Translated by George Szirtes and John Batki

The Last Wolf & Herman

Winner Of The Nobel Prize In Literature 2025

by László Krasznahorkai

Property Description
ISBN: 9781781258149
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Release Date: January of 2018
Language: English
Dimensions: 128 x 198 x 7 mm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 128
Format: Book
Categories: Books in English > Fiction > Fiction
EAN: 9781781258149

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

László Krasznahorkai

PRÉMIO NOBEL DA LITERATURA 2025

László Krasznahorkai (Gyula, 1954), «mestre húngaro do Apocalipse», segundo Susan Sontag, e «autor intenso e intransigente», segundo W. G. Sebald, é autor de uma obra visionária, traduzida em quarenta línguas, constituída por romances, como O Tango de Satanás (1985), Az ellenállás melankóliája [Melancolia da Resistência] (1989), Háború és háború [Guerra e Guerra] (1991) ou Herscht 07769 (2021), ficção breve, ensaios e guiões que resultaram em adaptações cinematográficas por Béla Tarr. Foi distinguido com inúmeros prémios literários, nos quais se incluem o America Award in Literature em 2014, o Man Booker International Prize em 2015, o Prémio Kossuth, o National Book Award for Translated Literature em 2019, o Austrian State Prize em 2022 e o Prix Formentor em 2024.
Recebeu o Prémio Nobel de Literatura 2025 pela sua «obra envolvente e visionária que, no meio do terror apocalíptico, reafirma o poder da arte. É um grande escritor épico, na tradição centro-europeia que se estende de Kafka a Thomas Bernhard».

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