László Krasznahorkai, George Szirtes - Satantango (epub) {PleX} [BЯ]

Summary


Already famous as the inspiration for the filmmaker Béla Tarr's six-hour masterpiece, Satantango is proof, as the spellbinding, bleak, and hauntingly beautiful book has it, that the devil has all the good times.The story of Satantango, spread over a couple of days of endless rain, focuses on the dozen remaining inhabitants of an unnamed isolated hamlet: failures stuck in the middle of nowhere. Schemes, crimes, infidelities, hopes of escape, and above all trust and its constant betrayal are Krasznahorkai's meat. At the center of Satantango, George Szirtes has said, is the eponymous drunken dance, referred to here sometimes as a tango and sometimes as a csardas. It takes place at the local inn where everyone is drunk. . . . Their world is rough and ready, lost somewhere between the comic and tragic, in one small insignificant corner of the cosmos. Theirs is the dance of death."You know," Mrs. Schmidt, a pivotal character, tipsily confides, "dance is my one weakness."



Title: Satantango


Author(s): László Krasznahorkai, George Szirtes


Published March 5th 2012 by New Directions (first published 1985)


Language: English


Length: Hardcover, 274 pages


Goodreads Rating : 4.23/5 (1,201 ratings)








Awards: Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Nominee for Longlist (2013),Best Translated Book Award for Fiction (2013)