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Sátántangó. [Satantango.]
Budapest: Magvető, 1985. First edition of Krasznahorkai’s debut novel. Title page printed in red and black. In original cloth, with illustrated dust jacket, designed by Pál Deim. 333, (3) p. In fine condition.
"Devastating, enthralling for every minute of its seven hours. I'd be glad to see it every year for the rest of my life." – Susan Sontag.
“Laszló Krasznahorkai's Hungarian novel, published in 1985, is the source of Béla Tarr's 415-minute black and white masterpiece of the same title, adapted with the author and released about a decade later perhaps the greatest Hungarian film I've seen. We already have a subsequent novel by the same author in English, ‘The Melancholy of Resistance’, pointing to a stylistic similarity between Krasznahorkai and Thomas Bernhard, but something tells me that ‘Sátántangó’ is even better: a ferocious piece of sarcasm, traversing the same day from various viewpoints like a Faulkner novel while recounting the last bitter gasps of a failed farm collective and everything its members do to betray one another.” – Jonathan Rosenbaum about “Sátántangó”.
László Krasznahorkai (b. 1955) Hungarian novelist and screenwriter. Honoured with numerous literary prizes and the most prestigious Hungarian state award the Kossuth Prize.
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Price: €500.00