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Satantango
Satantango
George Szirtes (translator)
Laszlo Krasznahorkai
László Krasznahorkai (author)
Ottilie Mulzet (translator)
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Author: Laszlo Krasznahorkai
ISBN:9781788166355
Publisher: Profile Books
Krasznahorkai's extraordinary first novel is back - and more devilish than ever.
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.
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ISBN:9781788166355
Publisher: Profile Books
Krasznahorkai's extraordinary first novel is back - and more devilish than ever.
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.
