Two strange stories - actually two versions of the same story, from a Hungarian writer

Another weird little book from New Directions consists of 3 stories by the Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai (you can bet I had to look that up!) - held one way the book contains two versions of a story, Herman (1986) and if you flip to the "back" cover and turn the book upside down it consists of another story (which I haven't read yet) from much later in LK's career - clever device, though I'm not sure of the purpose other than to draw attention (which is OK - this book will never be a best-seller, trust me). The two Herman stories are excellent, though: In the first "version," set in a rural area of, presumable, Hungary, the elders of a community hire the eponymous Herman, a retired game warden, to clean up a neglected forest over-run by vegetation and feral animals. Herman, w/ great, even eccentric, pride in his craft, spends a few years clearing up the forest and clearing out the invasive species - using mostly hand-made traps and great ingenuity. At some point he becomes distressed about the animals that suffer in the traps and develops a method of quick execution to spare them prolonged pain. Gradually, he comes to think that it's wrong to get rid of these mostly harmless animals and he lets the forest go again to weeds. Then he comes to think that people themselves are the invaders and sets up traps to capture and injure people who wander into the forest; these work, and authorities, not suspecting Herman, come after the perpetrator - with tragic results. In the 2nd "version," a group of 7 young people, vaguely defined as "officers," go on a vacation together near a forest (obviously the same location), during which they quite flagrantly engage in sex w/ one another in various semi-public locales. They are, ha!, made to feel unwelcome in this village and in fact are warned about the dangers of entering the forest, as people have been known to be capture and injured by various traps; the group of "officers" join the townspeople in the search for the person setting these lethal traps, which finally leads to a priest discovering a large trap set in the center aisle of his church. Yes, strange, even surreal stories, told in a straightforward, naturalistic manner, these pieces owe a debt to Kafka and Borges for sure,and their meaning such as it is remains elusive - though LK is surely playing with the boundaries between guilt and innocence, between social convention and community obligation.