
Satantango
Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Format
Paperback
Forlag
Profile Books Ltd
ISBN
9781788166355
Språk
Engelsk
160,-
På lager. Leveres vanligvis innen en uke.
Om boken
In the darkening embers of a Communist utopia, life in a desolate Hungarian town has come to a virtual standstill. Flies buzz, spiders weave, water drips and animals root desultorily in the barnyard of a collective farm. But when the charismatic Irimias—long-thought dead—returns, the villagers fall under his spell. Irimias sets about swindling the villagers out of a fortune that might allow them to escape the emptiness and futility of their existence. He soon attains a messianic aura as he plays on the fears of the townsfolk and a series of increasingly brutal events unfold. Translated by George Szirtes and Ottilie Mulzet