Satantango by Laszlo Krasznahorkai

Satantango by Laszlo Krasznahorkai

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2025 In the darkening embers of a Communist utopia, life in a desolate Hungarian town has come to a virtual standstill. Flies buzz, spiders weave, water drips and animals root desultorily in the barnyard of a collective farm. But when the charismatic Irimias - long-thought dead - returns, the villagers fall under his spell. Irimias sets about swindling the villagers out of a fortune that might allow them to escape the emptiness and futility of their existence. He soon attains a messianic aura as he plays on the fears of the townsfolk and a series of increasingly brutal events unfold. Translated by George Szirtes and Ottilie Mulzet

A modern masterpiece that manages to speak both of its time and to transcend it altogether * Sunday Telegraph *
A monster of a novel: compact, cleverly constructed, often exhilarating * Guardian *

László Krasznahorkai was born in Gyula, Hungary, in 1954. He has written 14 novels and won multiple awards including the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025, the National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2019 for Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming, the 2015 Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement and the 2024 Prix Formentor. Several of his most famous novels, including Satantango and The Melancholy of Resistance, were turned into films by the director Béla Tarr. His books have been translated into forty-two languages, and his most recent, Herscht 07769, was published in 2024. He lives in the hills of Pilisszentlászló in Hungary.

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ISBN 13	9781788166355
ISBN 10	1788166353
Title	Satantango
Author	Laszlo Krasznahorkai
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Profile Books Ltd
Year published	2020-11-05
Number of pages	304
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