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Books by László Krasznahorkai
  | | Chasing Homer Good Luck, Odysseus's Cave by László Krasznahorkai, Land#225, Szland#243, Max Neumann, John Batki, Szilveszter Miklós Hardcover, 80 Pages, Published 2021 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-2797-1, ISBN: 0-8112-2797-9 "Krasznahorkai--celebrated for the exhilarating energy of his prose--outdoes himself in Chasing Homer, and has, moreover, envisioned the book as a collaborative enterprise, with a beautiful full-color painting by Max Neumann for each of its ..." |
 | | Spadework for a Palace by John Batki, László Krasznahorkai Hardcover, 64 Pages, Published 2020 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-2840-4, ISBN: 0-8112-2840-1 "A joyful ode―in a single soaring, crazy sentence―to the interconnectedness of great (and mad) mindsSpadework for a Palace bears the subtitle “Entering the Madness of Others” and offers an epigraph: “Reality is no obstacle.” Indeed. This high-octane obsessive rant vaults over all obstacles, fueled by the idées fixe of a “gray little librarian” with fallen arches whose name―mr herman melvill―is merely one of the coincidences binding him t ..." |
 | | War & War(1st Edition) (New Directions Paperbook) by George Szirtes, László Krasznahorkai, Lã¡Szlã Krasznahorkai, Lszl¢ Krasznahorkai Paperback, 279 Pages, Published 2006 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-1609-8, ISBN: 0-8112-1609-8 "From the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International PrizeA novel of awesome beauty and power by the Hungarian master, Laszla Krasznahorkai. Winner of a 2005 PEN Translation Fund Award.War and War, Laszla Krasznahorkai's second novel in English from New Directions, begins at a point of danger: on a dark train platform Korim is on the verge of being attacked by thuggish teenagers and robbed; and from here, we are carried along by the ins ..." |
 | | AnimalInside(1st Edition) (The Cahiers) by Max Neumann, László Krasznahorkai, Ottilie Mulzet, Colm Tóibín, Laszlo Krusznahorkai, Lã¡Szlã Krasznahorkai Paperback, 48 Pages, Published 2011 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-1916-7, ISBN: 0-8112-1916-X "From the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International PrizeLimited to 2,000 gorgeous copies, this richly illustrated, extraordinary novella was created in collaboration with the famed painter Max Neumann. As if some chained being had to shake its essence free, as if art taken to its limit were a form of howling, Animalinside explodes from its first line: “He wants to break free, attempts to stretch open the walls, but he has been tautene ..." |
 | | Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming(Reprint) by Ottilie Mulzet, László Krasznahorkai, Lã¡Szlã Krasznahorkai Hardcover, 576 Pages, Published 2019 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-2664-6, ISBN: 0-8112-2664-6 "WINNER OF THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE "Krasznahorkai’s masterpiece" (The Millions); "Apocalyptic, visionary, and mad" (Publishers Weekly); "One of the supreme achievements of contemporary literature" (Paris Review); "Obsessive and visionary" (The New Yorker); "Genius" (The Baffler) At last, the capstone to Krasznahorkai’s four-part masterwork Set in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming tells the st ..." |
 | | The Last Wolf & Herman by László Krasznahorkai, John Batki, George Szirtes, Land#225, Szland#243 Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2019 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-2905-0, ISBN: 0-8112-2905-X "Now in paperback, two novellas from the Hungarian master László Krasznahorkai―“one of the most mysterious artists now at work” (Colm Toíbín) The Last Wolf (translated by George Szirtes) is Krasznahorkai in a maddening nutshell―it features a classic obsessed narrator, a man hired (by mistake) to write the true tale of the last wolf in Spain. This miserable experience (being mistaken for another person, dragged about a cold foreign place, ..." |
 | | The Last Wolf & Herman by László Krasznahorkai, John Batki, George Szirtes Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2018 by Tuskar Rock ISBN-13: 978-1-78125-814-9, ISBN: 1-78125-814-7 "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 n ..." |
 | | The Manhattan Project by László Krasznahorkai, John Batki, Professor Ornan Rotem Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 2017 by Sylph Editions ISBN-13: 978-1-909631-23-6, ISBN: 1-909631-23-X "Internationally celebrated Hugarian novelist Laszlo Krasznahorkai has been heralded by Susan Sontag as "the Hungarian master of the apocalypse" and compared favorably to Gogol by W. G. Sebald., A new work by Krasznahorkai is always an event, and The Manhattan Project is no less. As part of Krasznahorkai's fellowship at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, he has been working o ..." |
 | | The Last Wolf & Herman(1st Edition) by George Szirtes, László Krasznahorkai, John Batki, Lã¡Szlã Krasznahorkai, Lszl Krasznahorkai, Land#225, Szland#243 Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 2016 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-2608-0, ISBN: 0-8112-2608-5 "Two short masterworks by the most recent winner of the Man Booker International Prize: here, in miniature, is every reason why he wonThe Last Wolf, translated by George Szirtes, features a classic, obsessed Krasznahorkai narrator, a man hired to write (by mistake, by a glitch of fate) the true tale of the last wolf of Extremadura, a barren stretch of Spain. This miserable experience (being mistaken for another, dragged about a cold fore ..." |
 | | Seiobo There Below (Ndp; 1280) by Ottilie Mulzet, László Krasznahorkai, Lã¡Szlã Krasznahorkai, Land#225, Szland#243, Lszl Krasznahorkai Paperback, 440 Pages, Published 2013 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-1967-9, ISBN: 0-8112-1967-4 "From the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International PrizeThe latest novel from “the contemporary Hungarian master of the apocalypse” (Susan Sontag) Seiobo ― a Japanese goddess ― has a peach tree in her garden that blossoms once every three thousand years: its fruit brings immortality. In Seiobo There Below, we see her returning again and again to mortal realms, searching for a glimpse of perfection. Beauty, in Krasznahorkai’s new novel ..." |
 | | Satantango(1st Edition) by George Szirtes, László Krasznahorkai, Lã¡Szlã Krasznahorkai, Laszla3 Krasznahorkai, Laszlo Krasnahorkai Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2012 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-1734-7, ISBN: 0-8112-1734-5 "From the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International PrizeAt long last, twenty-five years after the Hungarian genius László Krasznahorkai burst onto the scene with his first novel, Satantango dances into English in a beautiful translation by George Szirtes. Already famous as the inspiration for the filmmaker Béla Tarr’s six-hour masterpiece, Satantango is proof, as the spellbinding, bleak, and hauntingly beautiful book has it, that “the ..." |
 | | Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens(1st Edition) Reportage (Hungarian List) by László Krasznahorkai, Ottilie Mulzet, Land#225, Szland#243 Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2018 by Seagull Books ISBN-13: 978-0-85742-533-1, ISBN: 0-85742-533-1 "Known for his brilliantly dark fictional visions, László Krasznahorkai is one of the most respected European writers of his generation and the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. Here, he brings us on a journey through China at the dawn of the new millennium. On the precipice of its emergence as a global power, China is experiencing cataclysms of modernity as its harsh Maoist strictures meet the chaotic flux of globalism. ..." |
 | | Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming by László Krasznahorkai 576 Pages, Published 2020 ISBN-13: 978-1-78125-892-7, ISBN: 1-78125-892-9 "Now, with this novel, I can prove that I really wrote just one book in my life. This is the book - Satantango, Melancholy, War & War, and Baron. This is my one book.' László Krasnahorkai" |
 | | Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming by László Krasznahorkai 576 Pages, Published 2019 by New Directions Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-2665-3, ISBN: 0-8112-2665-4 "Dr. Kálmán Ábrahám), up to and including his true favorites, accordingly Motor- Vehicle Braking Systems, by Dr. Ferenc Sidó, as well as the 1981–88 editions of Fix It Like This! by Dr. Hans-Rüdiger Etzold, and he hadn't even yet mentioned ..." |
 | | The World Goes On by László Krasznahorkai 288 Pages, Published 2017 by New Directions Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-2420-8, ISBN: 0-8112-2420-1 "László Krasznahorkai. direction of Kreuzberg, but the train was a bit late. I was observing the crowd of carefree passengers around me, and at first noticed only a certain tension in these so-called carefree passengers. I recognized the cause ... the mildest ones—become visible solely when they are violated, and can be apprehended in operation only through a certain element of scandal, that is, via the introduction of a certain deg ..." |
 | | The Last Wolf & Herman: The Game Warden, the Death of a Craft by László Krasznahorkai Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 2016 by New Directions Publishing Corporation ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-2609-7, ISBN: 0-8112-2609-3 "... he told the Hungarian barman though the man simply stared at him, quizzically raising his eyebrows, not listening, not even hearing because the music was so loud, an especially sugary piece of Turkish pop, the kind continually being played in the Sparschwein, by either Mustafa Sandal or Tarkan, or Tarkan or Mustafa Sandal, the choice of music being hard to explain because it was pointless the owner trying to lure customers into ..." |
 | | The Bill For Palma Vecchio, at Venice (Sylph Editions - The Art Monographs) by László Krasznahorkai, George Szirtes, Palma Vecchio, Land#225, Szland#243 Paperback, 32 Pages, Published 2013 by Sylph Editions ISBN-13: 978-0-9569920-9-3, ISBN: 0-9569920-9-9 "In The Bill, László Krasznahorkai’s madly lucid voice pours forth in a single, vertiginous, eleven-page sentence addressing Palma Vecchio, a sixteenth-century Venetian painter. Peering out from the pages are Vecchio’s voluptuous, bare-breasted blondes, a succession of models transformed on the canvas into portraits of apprehensive sexuality. Alongside these women, the writer that Susan Sontag called “the Hungarian master of apocalypse” ..." |
 | | Seiobo There Below by László Krasznahorkai 448 Pages, Published 2013 by New Directions Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-2119-1, ISBN: 0-8112-2119-9 "... in this atmosphere of mutually exclusive attributions, had not the art historian of the Confraternita, Dr. Agnese Chiari, been troubled by something about this valued treasure of S. Rocco, and not brought it to the attention of Dr. Fatima Terzo , ..." |
 | | Satantango by László Krasznahorkai 274 Pages, Published 2012 by New Directions Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-1956-3, ISBN: 0-8112-1956-9 "László Krasznahorkai. feet. “I hear you're back in town, squire,” he said sleepily and gently let himself down into the chair next to Irimiás. “I wouldn't resist if you tried to shake my hand.” Irimiás was gazing mournfully into space but at Páyer's words snapped to aention and gave a smile of satisfaction. “My deepest respects. I hope I have not awoken you from your slumbers. ... I haven't been introduced to your esteemed colleagu ..." |
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