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Hard cover, 8vo, in black cloth, titles in white to spine, in the original red and white dust jacket printed with the gold seal of the "National Book Award Winner" (won for translated literature, 2019) with red endpapers, 558pp. Third printing, 2019. CONDITION: Fine in a Fine unclipped dust jacket.**"Set in contemporary times, [the book] tells the story of a Prince Myshkin-like figure who decides to return to the provincial Hungarian town of his birth. Having escaped from his many casino debts in Buenos Aries, where he was living in exile, he wishes to be reunited with with his high school sweetheart, Marika. What follows is an endless storm of gossip, con men, and local politicians, vividly evoking the small city's alternatively drab and absurd existence. All along the Professor,--a world famous natural scientist who studies mosses and inhabits a bizarre shack in a desolate area outside of town--offers long rants and disquisitions on his own attempts to immunize himself from thought. Spectacular actions are staged, death and the abyss loom, and doom is brought down on the unsuspecting residents of the town." (blurb) ISBN 9780811226646. Hungarian Winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Ref: LITLAZ 9711
$70.00