The first Laszlo Krasznahorkai book I ever purchased happened to be the first of his novels translated into English. I found it at a used-book store in St. Louis around the turn of the millennium.

A literary masterpiece — in a single sentence. László Krasznahorkai’s “Herscht 07769” is a timely meditation on our impotent slide into authoritarianism.

Written in a single, 406-page long sentence, the new novel from International Booker Prize winner László Krasznahorkai achieves some extraordinary effects, writes Stuart Kelly ...