Satantango
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2025
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Satantango
Narrated by:
Grover Gardner
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Narrated by:
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Grover Gardner
Summary
In 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 Mulze©1985 László Krasznahorkai (P)2025 Profile Books Ltd
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