01717 a2200241 4500 11373 IN-BhIIT 20260313174801.0 260212b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781788166355 (pbk.) IN-BhIIT eng 894.511 KRA/S Krasznahorkai, László Author 27226 Santango / László Krasznahorkai and translated by George Szirtes London : New Directions, 2013. 282 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. Includes bibliographical references. and index. lready 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.” Fiction 359 Szirtes, George Translator 27227 TRB 1 15290 15290 0 0 ddc 0 0 GEN CLIITBBS CLIITBBS 2026-01-29 32 524.25 1 894.511 KRA/S 11373 2026-03-18 17:21:29 2026-03-13 699.00 2026-01-29 GEN