Satantango
"Set in an isolated hamlet, Satantango unfolds over the course of a few rain-soaked days. Only a dozen inhabitants remain in the bleak village, rank with the stench of failed schemes, betrayals, failure, infidelity, sudden hopes, and aborted dreams. At the center of Satantango is the eponymous drunk...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English Hungarian |
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New York :
New Directions Pub. Corp.,
2012.
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| Summary: | "Set in an isolated hamlet, Satantango unfolds over the course of a few rain-soaked days. Only a dozen inhabitants remain in the bleak village, rank with the stench of failed schemes, betrayals, failure, infidelity, sudden hopes, and aborted dreams. At the center of Satantango is the eponymous drunken dance."--P. [i]. |
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| Physical Description: | 274 p. ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780811217347 (acid-free paper) 0811217345 (acid-free paper) |
| Author Notes: | László Krasznahorkai is an Hungarian Author who has won the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. The $117,600 biennial prize is awarded to a living author, whose body of work is available in English or English translation, in recognition of his or her contribution to fiction 'on the world stage'. (Bowker Author Biography) |
