Ein nahezu verlassenes Dorf, nur wenige Menschen sind geblieben. Armut und Perspektivlosigkeit liegen schwer über den Einwohnern. Die Gemeinschaft ist zersetzt von Hass und Misstrauen. Irimias, ein früherer Dorfbewohner, kehrt zurück und verspricht Geld und Hoffnung. Das Dorf lässt sich auf ihn ein, nichtsahnend, dass er ein Polizeispitzel ist, der die Menschen durch die Androhung der Gefängnisstrafe erpresst. Krasznahorkai erzählt atmosphärisch dicht von verrotteten Charakteren in einem verfehlten Staat. Sein Satanstango ist überwältigend.§Ein Fremder, ein verrottendes Dorf, ein...
Ein nahezu verlassenes Dorf, nur wenige Menschen sind geblieben. Armut und Perspektivlosigkeit liegen schwer über den Einwohnern. Die Gemeinschaft is...
Now in paperback, Satantango, the novel that inspired Bela 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...
Now in paperback, Satantango, the novel that inspired Bela Tarr s classic film, is proof that the devil has all the good times. Set in an isolated ham...
In "The Bill," Laszlo Krasznahorkai s madly lucid voice pours forth in a single, vertiginous, eleven-page sentence addressing Palma Vecchio, a sixteenth-century Venetian painter. Peering out from the pages are Vecchio s voluptuous, bare-breasted blondes, a succession of models transformed on the canvas into portraits of apprehensive sexuality. Alongside these women, the writer that Susan Sontag called the Hungarian master of apocalypse interrogates Vecchio s gift: Why does he do it? How does he do it? And why are these models so afraid of him even though he, unlike most of his contemporaries,...
In "The Bill," Laszlo Krasznahorkai s madly lucid voice pours forth in a single, vertiginous, eleven-page sentence addressing Palma Vecchio, a sixteen...
Known for his brilliantly dark fictional visions, Laszlo Krasznahorkai is one of the most respected European writers of his generation and the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. Here, he brings us on a journey through China at the dawn of the new millennium. On the precipice of its emergence as a global power, China is experiencing cataclysms of modernity as its harsh Maoist strictures meet the chaotic flux of globalism. What remains of the Middle Kingdom s ancient cultural riches? And can a Westerner truly understand China s past and present or the murky waters where the two...
Known for his brilliantly dark fictional visions, Laszlo Krasznahorkai is one of the most respected European writers of his generation and the winner ...
The Last Wolf, translated by George Szirtes, features a classic, obsessed Krasznahorkai narrator, a man hired to write (by mistake, by a glitch of fate) the true tale of the last wolf of Extremadura, a barren stretch of Spain. This miserable experience (being mistaken for another, dragged about a cold foreign place, appalled by a species' end) is narrated--all in a single sentence--as a sad looping tale, a howl more or less, in a dreary wintry Berlin bar to a patently bored bartender.
The Last Wolf is Krasznahorkai in a maddening nutshell--with the...
The Last Wolf, translated by George Szirtes, features a classic, obsessed Krasznahorkai narrator, a man hired to write (by mistake, by a ...