Satantango

Laszlo Krasznahorkai author George Szirtes translator Ottilie Mulzet translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Profile Books Ltd

Published:5th Nov '20

Should be back in stock very soon

Satantango cover

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

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.

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 *

ISBN: 9781788166355

Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 20mm

Weight: 238g

304 pages

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