Satantango
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.58 (590 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0811217345 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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Genius, and one of the greatest living novelists I'll start by confessing that I have written on Krasznahorkai for years and on the basis of The Melancholy of Resistance and his other books, I consider him one of the greatest contemporary writers.Satantango was Krasznahorkai's first novel, published in 1985 but only translated now into English. I've read Satantango in French but I don't know Hungarian, so I can only say that Szirtes seems to have done as wonderful a job here as he did with Melancholy.Satantango is the story of a tiny rural Hungarian village and its miserable, static inhabitants. A drunk doctor, a barman, farmers, and a few others have affai. A Profound and Incredibly Unique piece of literature Laszlo Krasznahorkai was one of my first truly unique reading experiences in many years. I'm normally prone to specific classics (Sylvia Plath; Edgar Allan Poe; JD Salinger; etc) and my favorite writers are mostly contemporary aside from those, like Stephen King and Neil Gaiman. I discovered Krasznahorkai after watching a Hungarian film from legendary director Bela Tarr, and I was interested in the writer of the movie, which was Krasznahorkai. And Satantango was my first book from him, and certainly won't be my last.One of the reviews on the back of the book describes his writing as totally original and uniqu. Self-delusion played as a team sport. The residents of the "estate" are trying to brew some type of life out of the dregs of their small town. However, life seemingly left that area some time ago. There are those who will hang on forever in a hope that someone will somehow make things like they used to be. This is probably the case in other countries in real life as it is in the fictional one of the Hungary we read about in Satantango.The same people tell the same stories over and over, even though others could tell the same stories and maybe do it better. Others go through the same routine motions each day/week. You can set your clock/calendar b
Schemes, crimes, infidelities, hopes of escape, and above all trust and its constant betrayal are Krasznahorkai’s meat. From the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International PrizeAt long last, twenty-five years after the Hungarian genius László Krasznahorkai burst onto the scene with his first novel, Satantango dances into English in a beautiful translation by George Szirtes. Already famous as the inspiration for the filmmaker Béla Tarr’s six-hour masterpiece, Satantango is proof, as the spellbinding, bleak, and hauntingly beautiful book has it, that “the devil has all the good times.” The story of Satantango, spread over a couple of days of endless rain, focuses on the
. László Krasznahorkai was born in Gyula, Hungary in 1954. He has won numerous international literary awards and his works have been translated into many languages.George Szirtes is a Hungarian-born British poet and translator who has translated works by Sándor Csoóri, Dezsö
—J. Supposedly structured on the forward-backward steps of the tango, the novel glides from one consciousness to another, ultimately revealed as a kind of Mobius strip. From Bookforum A bleakly absurdist, voluptuously written saga of abject disintegration on the muddy nowheresville of the Hungarian puszta, Satantango had a sardonic prescience. Hoberman