EAN: 9780811231534

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

A  WASHINGTON POST  NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024 A  PUBLISHERS WEEKY  BEST BOOK OF 2024 The gentle giant Florian Herscht has a problem: having faithfully attended Herr Köhler's adult education classes in physics he is convinced that disaster is imminent. And so he embarks upon a one-sided correspondence with Chancellor Angela Merkel to convince her of the danger of the complete destruction of all physical matter. Otherwise he works for the Boss (the head of a local neo-Nazi gang) who has taken him under his wing and gotten him work as a graffiti cleaner and also a one-room apartment in the small eastern German town of Kana. The Boss is enraged by a graffiti artist who with wolf emblems is defacing all the various monuments to Johann Sebastian Bach in Thuringia. A Bach fanatic and director of an amateur orchestra he is determined to catch the culprit with the help of his gang and Florian has no choice but to join the chase. The situation becomes even more frightening and havoc ensues when real wolves are sighted in the area... Written in one cascading sentence with the power of atomic particles colliding Krasznahorkai's novel is a tour de force a morality play a blistering satire a devastating encapsulation of our helplessness when confronted with the moral and environmental dilemmas we face.

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