- Editorial:
- PROFILE BOOKS
- Año de edición:
- 2020
- Materia
- Otras narrativas
- ISBN:
- 978-1-78816-635-5
- Páginas:
- 304
SATANTANGO
LASZLO KRASZNAHORKAI
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2025In 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