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I stopped reading it about a month ago halfway through the book and haven't picked it back up.

Despite, or maybe because of, the depth of thought and insight Krasznahorkai brings to this exceptional and profound novel, intricately translated by Ottilie Mulzet, there are moments of great humour too. Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2017 for the splendid The World Goes On and he won the Man Booker International Prize in 2015 in its original guise as a prize for a body of work. And why not end, as Krasznahorkai doesn’t, with an upbeat example of the comedy that is a surprising feature of the book? The information about Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming shown above was first featured in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's online-magazine that keeps our members abreast of notable and high-profile books publishing in the coming weeks. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. Long stretches of the novel lie there, slow and exhausting, like call waiting, drone music, middle age.

Exhilaratingly out of step with most contemporary fiction, it’s closer in spirit to Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans, a novel whose syntactic difficulty creates a literary no man’s land for intrepid readers to yomp through. Krasznahorkai is a master and the book will provide readers who know what they're getting into with many, many hours of pleasurably slow-paced introspection, mystery, and knockout prose; still, readers who don't know they want this might, I'd guess, be happier starting with a shorter, more self-contained work like the stunning, You Can't Go Home Again (Hungarian style), Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2019. The story can go for pages and pages without a single period, reading like a long, extremely repetitive, rant. This shaggy-dog story won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, yet it’s hard to think of anything comparable to the crazed abundance on show here; as a portrait of epistemological derangement – AKA fake news – it hits the mark as well as any more hidebound attempt to catch the zeitgeist. This book does not console, but real life was fine then. What fools these mortals be! Reading it now may trigger intense dwelling on things. he runs afoul of a biker gang, from whom he must flee for his life. Krasznahorkai’s sentences go on for pages and pages.

This winner of the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature tells the story of a Prince Myshkin-like figure who returns at the end of his life to his provincial Hungarian hometown. Any pretension is tongue-in-cheek because the narrative is also compelling—there’s a town reminiscent of Brigadoon, but inverted and bleak because it exists in denial of its own nature. Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming is the latest of Krasznahorkai's works to be translated into English, in this instance by Ottilie Mulzet. Its more vatic passages can feel superfluous (“The world is nothing more than an event, lunacy, a lunacy of billions and billions of events, and nothing is fixed, nothing is confined, nothing graspable, everything slips away if we want to clutch on to it”). Over the course of seven pages, which may or may not have anything to do with the 550 pages that follow, an orchestral conductor delivers a peroration that is also a rant that is also a kind of philosophical projectile missile. My only real complaint about the book is the attack on Hungary and Hungarians that occurs in the latter part of the book. Make no mistake, Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming is gloomy, frequently inert, boring, frustrating.Its more vatic passages can feel superfluous (“The world is nothing more than an event, lunacy, a lunacy of billions and billions of events, and nothing is fixed, nothing is confined, nothing graspable, everything slips away if we want to clutch on to it”). Long winding dreamy and lovely, all the usual Krasznahorkai pleasures, Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2019, While it's a fool's errand to blaze through it quickly enough to meet an Amazon-imposed short deadline for this review — and so I haven't — I can easily say nonetheless that Krasznahorkai's newest novel is a treat, full of the pleasures of his absolutely incomparable style, and ably translated as always by the great Ottilie Mulzet. Krasznahorkai has written an occasionally humorous, often thoughtful, philosophical diatribe propelled by (routinely) chapter-long sentences. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Phone orders min p&p of £1.99, The Hungarian maestro is on peerless form with a work of dark wit and dizzying prose. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. By Laszlo Krasznahorkai. Hungarian-born László Krasznahorkai, winner of the 2015 Man Booker international prize and best known for Satantango (1985), later made into a legendarily dour seven-hour film of the same name by Béla Tarr, has described it in summative terms: “I’ve said it a thousand times that I always wanted to write just one book … with Baron, I can close this story.”. Yet it has a madness and monomania that compel. The social panorama drawn by Krasznahorkai around the Baron is counterpointed with the strange tale of the Professor, a reclusive world expert on moss. The first page of this book gives you a pretty broad hint for what you are in for. Check out the work of this highly idiosyncratic Hungarian novelist, beginning perhaps with the hugely accessible The Last Wolf. Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming is the latest of Krasznahorkai's works to be translated into English, in this instance by Ottilie Mulzet. This blackly absurd satire of provincial Hungarian life is maddening, compelling – and very funny. Incredible distance is covered in an oddly intimate, if disorienting, way. Reminds me of Dickens that way, though very differently styled. To order a copy go to guardianbookshop.com. They are held together – shades of Tristam Shandy, here – by dashes and ellipses rather than full stops. This blackly absurd satire of provincial Hungarian life is maddening, compelling – and very funny. Soon, inasmuch as anything happens quickly or sequentially in this novel, he’s forced to go on the run after shooting a member of a biker gang. On trains, begging on streets, getting into fights. I don't read novels that often because I find them too long. There are surprisingly contemporary allusions to iPhone photo galleries and the Brazilian footballer Dante. Much of the humour is directed at the burghers of the provincial town where the Baron and the Professor have landed up. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. He comes up with odd similes – a woman leans forward “like Nike of Samothrace” – and includes knowing gags to illustrate how terrible a particular day is (infanticide, epidemic, a new exhibition by the German artist Gregor Schneider). Perhaps it was an homage to the Austrian writer Bernhard, but it seemed a bit of a lazy trope from Kraznahorkai.

• Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming, translated by Ottilie Mulzet, is published by Tuskar Rock (RRP £20).

by Michele Hutchison, Esther Kinsky, Trans. Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming by László Krasznahorkai review - fake news as comedy of errors The Hungarian maestro is on peerless form with a work of dark wit and dizzying prose Anthony Cummins He’s lost interest in mosses and is deeply annoyed at being confronted by his 19-year-old daughter who shows up, accompanied by a TV crew, trying to get the maintenance payments she’s owed. Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming is a long, hard slog At nearly 600 pages, the latest novel from the prize-wining Hungarian László Krasznahorkai is his lengthiest and most ‘resistant’ yet This justly celebrated writer won the Best Book of the Year award in Germany for The Melancholy of Resistance and the 2013 Best Translated Book Award in Fiction for Sátántangó, which was later adapted as a seven-and-a-half-hour film of the same name by Hungarian film director, Bela Tarr. Though it seems to be addressed to his musical performers, it’s unclear whether this isn’t actually one long interior monologue, bringing to mind the troubled babble of Samuel Beckett’s Not I. Not for nothing do we read of a cab driver who tells his fare: “We’ve already been driving around and around in circles for almost an hour now, and you just keep gesturing for me to keep going on and on, which is fine, but now I’d like to know, my friend, what is the goal of this journey, where do you want to go?”. The fascists get heavier, the mood darker. The "if" in my review title is worth considering. Its more vatic passages can feel superfluous (“The world is nothing more than an event, lunacy, a lunacy of billions and billions of events, and nothing is fixed, nothing is confined, nothing graspable, everything slips away if we want to clutch on to it”).

This conductor is obsessive. In most cases, the reviews are necessarily limited to those that were available to us ahead of publication. A rambling, disjointed, cumbersome first sentence carries on forever and, if it is meant to intrigue some readers, has the potential to be highly irritating to others. These are uncertain times, and all the dystopian books I’ve read come back to haunt me.

I truly want to continue reading it because I thought Laszlo's rendering of the story was unique and effective, and the story and the characters were quite interesting. Not even 600 pages, it’s both too long and – in this era of rolling news and data dumps – far too short.

I just wish it wasn't so long in the telling. It's off-putting--and downright annoying--at first, but I slugged forward, I was able to adjust and settle in, although I'll admit, I wanted to quit and fling the fairly large book across the room on more than one occasion. Things can only get worse. The Chief Editor of the local newspaper convenes some of the town’s dignitaries in order to read aloud an anonymous jeremiad he has received. This is a high-wire act on the part of the author, and a gamble – or act of faith – on the part of the reader.

Can't wait for Bela Tar to make the film. Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai is the kind of figure who seems as likely to inspire scoffing scepticism as prostrate wonder. It’s also an experiment in suspense that recalls the shaggy-dog detours of improvisational comedy. The locals, who don’t know this and plan to fleece or profit from him, act as if he’s a hero and saviour. They are laden with clauses within clauses, full of conditionals studded with conditionals and explanations that also contain explanations, indifferent in punctuation terms to whether a character is speaking or just thinking. Maybe you have to read the previous three books to enjoy this one. His memory is rather hazy, and his wealth non-existent.

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