9780811220897-0811220893-Satantango

Satantango

ISBN-13: 9780811220897
ISBN-10: 0811220893
Edition: Reprint
Author: László Krasznahorkai
Publication date: 2013
Publisher: New Directions
Format: Paperback 288 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780811220897
ISBN-10: 0811220893
Edition: Reprint
Author: László Krasznahorkai
Publication date: 2013
Publisher: New Directions
Format: Paperback 288 pages

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Satantango (ISBN-13: 9780811220897 and ISBN-10: 0811220893), written by authors László Krasznahorkai, was published by New Directions in 2013. With an overall rating of 4.2 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Satantango (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $2.38.

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From the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize

A dark, haunting masterpiece by the author of The Melancholy of Resistance and Seiobo There Below

Now in paperback, Satantango, the novel that inspired Béla Tarr’s classic film, is proof that the devil has all the good times. Set in an isolated hamlet, the novel 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. “Their world,” in the words of the renowned translator George Szirtes is “rough and ready, lost somewhere between the cosmic and tragic, in one small insignificant corner of the cosmos. Theirs is the dance of death.” Into this world comes, it seems, a messiah…
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