Review: Wyatt Mason on László Krasznahorkai

Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai receiving the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature for Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming

Consider the following sentence: “Le triomphe de la végétation est total.” It’s the most beautiful last line of a novel I know—from Michel Houellebecq’s La carte et le territoire—its beauty arising in part from how it br…