Baron Wenckheims Rückkehr

"Each of my books is meant to shift the literary map." - László Krasznahorkai, winner of the 2015 International Man Booker Prize, succeeds in creating a masterpiece with "Baron Wenckheim's Return": a firework of inexhaustible inventiveness, clairvoyant psychology, abysmal themes, and absurd humor. Baron Wenckheim returns to the Hungary of today: a run-down world full of losers. Everyone's exaggerated hopes are directed at Wenckheim. The son of the city, who has achieved supposed world fame in Buenos Aires, is supposed to save them. But too many are playing with fire, and the city is full of mysterious tankers. The explosion seems close every second. With his new book, Krasznahorkai follows up on his legendary novels "Satanstango" and "Melancholy of Resistance," which became celebrated rediscoveries in New York with cult status.