The Last Wolf and Herman
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Translated from: hun
Translation of: Az utolsó farkas; Herman, a vadőr, A mesterségnek vége
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780811229050
Subjects: Fiction, general
Other titles: The Last Wolf / Herman; Herman;  The Last Wolf;  Herman, a vadőr, A mesterségnek vége; Az utolsó farkas; Kegyelmi visonyok ;
Description: 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 …
Notes: "A New Directions book."
"Originally published in Hungarian as Az utolsó farkas (The Last Wolf, originally published 2009), and Herman, a vadőr, A mesterségnek vége (Herman, originally published 1986)"--Title page verso