A novel worth reading even after seeing the great Bela Tarr film first. I explain why here:http://msarki.tumblr.com/post/52033826184/an-hungarian-classic-satantango-by-laszlo
Review published in the LA Review of Books: http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?type=&id=738On Monday, July 2, László Krasznahorkai read before a considerably rapt crowd at the Housing Works Bookstore in Manhattan. The Hungarian writer read from Satantango and spoke about his elliptical and enigm...
This is an incredibly challenging, yet rewarding work. I almost want to hold judgment on it, but I'll let that go and just say I was simply in awe of the writing at times. My only hesitation is the clearly intentional confusing narrative in which, although I understand the projection, still did not ...
reflex - an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus.Though this is basically a negative review I still believe the novel Portraits of a Marriage is definitely worth reading. And let this be a warning to you that further down the page there will be a spoiler of sorts, but I do not thin...
The 'Not a Christmas present' gift! First sentence is enough to indicate just why Krúdy is a favourite with those who like a smidgeon of artistic genius dusted over their reading matter.Once upon a damp and moonlit night a man with greying hair was watching the autumn mist form figures of chimney-sw...
It seems to me that the back cover blurb seriously misstates the nature of this novel; but the blurb-writer can be forgiven, because it's very hard to come up with a brief description of this unconventional, disturbing, densely-worded, elliptical work. Furthermore, when discussing it, I don't want t...
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