The Last Wolf & Herman

In The Last Wolf, a philosophy professor is mistakenly hired to write the true tale of the last wolf of Extremadura, a barren stretch of Spain. His miserable experience is narrated in a single, rolling sentence to a patently bored bartender in a dreary Berlin bar.
These intense, perfect novellas, full of Krasznhorkai's signature sense of foreboding and dark irony, are perfect examples of this Nobel Prize winner's craft.