Satantango Reprint Edition
Author(s): László Krasznahorkai (Author), George Szirtes (Translator)
- Publisher: New Directions
- Publication Date: Dec 10 2013
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Print length: 288 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780811220897
- ISBN-13: 9780811220897
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
Review
The excitement of Krasznahorkai’s writing is that he has come up with his own original forms – and one of the most haunting is his first, Satantango. There is nothing else like it in contemporary literature. — Adam Thirwell
Satantango is a monster of a novel: compact, cleverly constructed, often exhilarating, and possessed of a distinctive, compelling vision – but a monster nonetheless…The grandeur is clearly palpable.
Krasznahorkai is alone among European novelists now in his intensity and originality. One of the most mysterious artists now at work. — Colm Tóibín
Profoundly unsettling. — James Wood
His inexhaustible yet claustrophobic prose, with its long, tight, weaving sentences, each like a tantalising tightrope between banality and apocalypse, places the author in a European tradition of Beckett, Bernhard, and Kafka. — James Hopkin
About the Author
László Krasznahorkai was born in Gyula, Hungary, in 1954. He worked for some years as an editor until 1984, when he became a freelance writer. He now lives in reclusiveness in the hills of Szentlászló. His many accolades include the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature, the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature, and the 2015 Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement. Starting in 2000, New Directions has published fourteen of his books.
George Szirtes (b. 1948) is an award-winning poet and translator who settled in England after his family fled the Hungarian Uprising of 1956. His translation of Satantango by László Krasznahorkai won the 2013 Best Translated Book Award.
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