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The Last Wolf & Herman
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $14.95
ISBN13: 9780811229050
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: Dec 17 2019
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.60 Width: 4.40 Depth: 7.10
Language: English
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, and appalled by a species's end) is narrated--all in a single sentence--as a sad looping tale, a howl more or less, in a dreary Berlin bar to a patently bored bartender.
Herman (translated by John Batki), a peerless virtuoso of trapping who guards the splendid mysteries of an ancient craft gradually sinking into permanent oblivion, is asked to clear a forest's last noxious beasts. He begins with great zeal, although in time he suspects that maybe he was 'on the wrong scent.' Herman switches sides, deciding to track entirely new game ...
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