Satantango
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781848877658 (184887765X)
Publish date: July 4th 2013
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Pages no: 274
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Contemporary,
Dystopia,
International,
Hungary,
Hungarian Literature
Satantango by Laszlo Krasznahorkai has received numerous great reviews and write ups but for me this was a very depressing and claustrophobic read. Longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2013 but it was the cover that caught my attention as I browsed in a book shop and I am a sucke...
I loved reading this book whenever I was reading it, and perhaps if I had finished it the overall effect would have been amazing, and perhaps I would have finished it if I had been able to sit and plow through it in a couple of sittings. But I couldn't, and I didn't, and so it wasn't. I just lost in...
--SatantangoA Note about the AuthorA Note about the Translator
Satantango, starts in some mouldering Hungarian hamlet, the home of the workers of a collective long since closed and stripped of anything of worth, and like the inhabitants of the hamlet forgotten by the outside world. In fact the only growth market appears to be rot and spiders, very little happen...
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
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