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Resumen del libro

Gentle giant Florian Herscht is an orphan, adopted by a neo-Nazi who has apprenticed him as a graffiti cleaner. The Boss, a Bach fanatic, is enraged that someone is spraying wolf emblems across the monuments to the famed composer in their east German town. He is determined to punish the culprit and Florian has no choice but to join his gang as they devise a plan to catch him.

But Florian has bigger things to worry about: having attended Herr Köhler's adult education classes in physics, he can see that the world might end at any moment. Written in one cascading sentence with the power of atomic particles colliding, Krasznahorkai's novel is a tour de force, a moving character study, a blistering satire and devastating encapsulation of our helplessness at the moral and environmental dilemmas we face today.

Biografía del autor

László Krasznahorkai (nascut el 5 de gener de 1954 a Hongria) és un escriptor hongarès reconegut per les seves novel-les denses, filosòfiques i apocalíptiques. La seva prosa es caracteritza per llargues frases hipnòtiques i una atmosfera inquietant. Va guanyar el Premi Man Booker Internacional el 2015 pel conjunt de la seva obra. Entre els seus llibres més coneguts hi ha Sátántangó (1985), que Béla Tarr va adaptar al cinema, i La melancolia de la resistència (1989). La seva obra sovint explora la decadència, lx{0026} x02019;absurd i el col-lapse de la civilització.