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Baron Wenckheim's homecoming
- Title
- Baron Wenckheim's homecoming / László Krasznahorkai ; translated from the Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet.
- Author
- Krasznahorkai, László
- Publication
- New York : New Directions Publishing, [2019]
- ©2019
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Mulzet, Ottilie
- Description
- 558 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "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. Having escaped from his many casino debts in Buenos Aires, where he was living in exile, he wishes to be reunited with his high school sweetheart Marika. What follows is an endless storm of gossip, con men, and local politicians, vividly evoking the small town's alternately drab and absurd existence. All along, the Professor--a world-famous natural scientist who studies mosses and inhabits a bizarre Zen-like shack in a desolate area outside of town--offers long rants and disquisitions on his own attempts to immunize himself from thought. Spectacular actions are staged, death and the abyss loom, until finally doom is brought down on the unsuspecting residents of the town"--
- Uniform Title
- Báró Wenckheim hazatér. English
- Alternative Title
- Báró Wenckheim hazatér.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Dystopian fiction.
- Note
- "Originally published in Hungarian as Báró Wenckheim hazatér"--Title page verso.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Hungarian.
- Call Number
- JFD 20-641
- ISBN
- 9780811226646
- 0811226646
- 9780811226653 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019025135
- 40029483737
- OCLC
- 1057376998
- Author
- Krasznahorkai, László, author.
- Title
- Baron Wenckheim's homecoming / László Krasznahorkai ; translated from the Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet.
- Publisher
- New York : New Directions Publishing, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- [First edition].
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Language
- Translated from the Hungarian.
- Added Author
- Mulzet, Ottilie, translator.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029483737
- Research Call Number
- JFD 20-641