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Satantango Hardcover - 2012

by Krasznahorkai, László


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Already famous as the inspiration for the filmmaker Bla 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."

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  • Title Satantango
  • Author Krasznahorkai, László
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition. F
  • Pages 275
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New Directions, New York City, NY
  • Date 2012
  • ISBN 9780811217347
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Satantango
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Satantango

by Krasznahorkai, LĂĄszlĂł

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New York : New Directions, 2012. Hardcover. Fine. Translated from the Hungarian by George Szirtes. Black cloth, no dust jacket as issued by the publisher. No printing or edition statement on the copyright page, as is often case with New Directions. Possible First American edition. Fine copy.
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