![]() Schmidt, a pivotal character, tipsily confides, “dance is my one weakness. Satantango by Lszl Krasznahorkai, translated by George Szirtes / ISBN 9780811220897 / 288-page paperback from New Directions Satantango is a monster. Theirs is the dance of death.” “You know,” Mrs. Their world is rough and ready, lost somewhere between the comic and tragic, in one small insignificant corner of the cosmos. It takes place at the local inn where everyone is drunk. “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. Satantango Audiobook By Lszl Krasznahorkai cover art. Schemes, crimes, infidelities, hopes of escape, and above all trust and its constant betrayal are Krasznahorkai’s meat. Satantango as its meant to be heard, narrated by Grover Gardner. Winner of the 2013 Best Translated Book Award Satantango byĪlready 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. ![]()
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