Satantango

Translated by George Szirtes
From the winner of the Man Booker International Prize

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.

Info autore

László Krasznahorkai

Riassunto

Translated by George Szirtes
From the winner of the Man Booker International Prize

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.

Prefazione

Krasznahorkai's extraordinary first novel is back - and more devilish than ever.

Relazione

A modern masterpiece that manages to speak both of its time and to transcend it altogether Sunday Telegraph

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Laszlo Krasznahorkai, László Krasznahorkai, Krasznahorkai Laszlo
• Con la collaborazione di: Ottilie Mulzet (Traduzione), Mulzet Ottilie (Traduzione), George Szirtes (Traduzione), Szirtes George (Traduzione)
• Editore: Profile Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 04.06.2020
• EAN: 9781788166355
• ISBN: 978-1-78816-635-5
• Pagine: 304
• Dimensioni: 129 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction, Fiction: general and literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary