Satantango - Softcover

Krasznahorkai, László; Szirtes, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811220893 ISBN 13: 9780811220897

Publisher: New Directions, 2014

Synopsis

Now in paperback, Satantango, the novel that inspired Bela Tarr s classic film, is proof that the devil has all the good times. Set in an isolated hamlet, the novel unfolds over the course of a few rain-soaked days. Only a dozen inhabitants remain in the bleak village, rank with the stench of failed schemes, betrayals, failure, infidelity, sudden hopes, and aborted dreams. Their world, in the words of the renowned translator George Szirtes is rough and ready, lost somewhere between the cosmic and tragic, in one small insignificant corner of the cosmos. Theirs is the dance of death. Into this world comes, it seems, a messiah "

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Review:

He offers us stories that are relentlessly generative and defiantly irresolvable. They are haunting, pleasantly weird, and, ultimately, bigger than the worlds they inhabit.

Profoundly unsettling.--James Wood

His inexhaustible yet claustrophobic prose, with its long, tight, weaving sentences, each like a tantalising tightrope between banality and apocalypse, places the author in a European tradition of Beckett, Bernhard, and Kafka.--James Hopkin

Krasznahorkai is alone among European novelists now in his intensity and originality. One of the most mysterious artists now at work.--Colm Tóibín

Satantango is a monster of a novel: compact, cleverly constructed, often exhilarating, and possessed of a distinctive, compelling vision - but a monster nonetheless...The grandeur is clearly palpable.

Book Description:

From the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize, Satantango is a visionary masterpiece of post-war Hungarian literature: bleak, brutal and brilliant

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0811220893
• ISBN 13: 9780811220897
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288