Satantango

Description

Now in paperback, Satantango, the novel that inspired B?la 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…
Binding Type: Paperback
Contributors: L?szl? Krasznahorkai,George Szirtes (Translator)
Published: 12/10/2013
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 9780811220897
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 0.81″ H x 7.88″ L x 5.03″ W

About the Author
Szirtes, George: – George Szirtes (b. 1948) is an award-winning poet and translator who settled in England after his family fled the Hungarian Uprising of 1956. His translation of Satantango by L?szl? Krasznahorkai won the 2013 Best Translated Book Award.Krasznahorkai, L?szl?: –

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, L?szl? Krasznahorkai was born in Gyula, Hungary.