Povratak baruna Wenckheima
This whirlwind of a novel is comparable to Dostoevsky and shows Krasznahorkai at the absolute peak of his decades-long project. Apocalyptic, visionary, and mad, this novel leaves an irrevocable mark…”
The aged and impoverished Baron Wenckheim, fleeing from gambling debts, returns from Buenos Aires via Vienna and Budapest to his hometown where he spent a beautiful childhood and youth. Aware of the approaching end of his life, his only motivation is his youthful love – Marika – to whom he wants to tell that he has loved her all his life.
But even this provincial town is a full-fledged protagonist of the novel, with a multitude of unusual, but also typical characters, rascals of all kinds, a Professor who has a doctorate in the properties of moss, the Mayor, the head of the police and the library, the Leader and the train driver, an employee at the Tourist Office in a town where there are no tourists, etc., and all in a frenetic, fantastic Broglie atmosphere where mediocrity literally blinds.
Such a masterful, virtuoso, comprehensive cross-section of today's world, in which all the most important questions of a thinking person are touched upon, all the stupidities, absurdities, fears, evils, and disbeliefs that we face every day, could only have been written by László Krasznahorkai, that Hungarian magician of the written word.
One copy is available
