Satantango

Informationen zum Autor WINNER OF THE 2025 NOBEL PRIZE  The winner of the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature and the 2015 Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement, László Krasznahorkai was born in Gyula, Hungary. Klappentext Now in paperback, Satantango, the novel that inspired Béla 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...

Product details

• Authors: Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Laszlo Szirtes Krasznahorkai, George Szirtes, László Krasznahorkai
• Assisted by: George Szirtes (Translation)
• Publisher: New Directions
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 28.01.2014
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945)
• EAN: 9780811220897
• ISBN: 978-0-8112-2089-7
• Dimensions (packing): 13.5 x 20 x 2.1 cm
• Subjects: Ungarn, Small Town, Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung, Ungarn / Roman, Erzählung, Ungarische Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung, Gogol, Apocalypse, FICTION / World Literature / Hungary, Bulgakov, Haunting, Allegory, dark humor, apocalyptic, Post-modern, con man, Nobelpreis für Literatur 2025, allegorical