Publisher's Synopsis
In this Cahier, novelist Laszlo Krasznahorkai responds with fourteen texts to fourteen depictions of a strange and ill-formed creature made by his friend the renowned German painter Max Neumann. The texts speak from within the head of Neumann's creature that seems to be menacing existence itself; serving, as they do so, to confirm Susan Sontag's estimate of Krasznahorkai as The Hungarian Master of Apocalypse . All fourteen of Neumann's paintings are reproduced alongside the texts (translated by Ottilie Mulzet). With a preface by Irish novelist Colm Toibin.
