“A writer without comparison, László Krasznahorkai plunges into the subconscious where this moral battle takes place, and projects it into a mythical, mysterious, and irresistible work of post-modern fiction, a novel certain to hold a high rank in the canon of Eastern European literature.”
— The Coffin Factory on László Krasznahorkai's Satantango
László Krasznahorkai is a contemporary Hungarian author whose works have been translated into many languages.
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. He has written five novels and won numerous prizes. In 1993, he won the Best Book of the Year Award in Germany for The Melancholy of Resistance.
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War And War
The Melancholy Of Resistance
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“A bruising study of expectation and failure.”
— Bookslut on László Krasznahorkai's Satantango
“Krasznahorkai proves himself to be capable of bringing anything to life, and Satantango's pages are teeming with it.”
— Critical Mob on László Krasznahorkai's Satantango
“His wry, snake-like sentences produce — or unspool — layer upon layer of psychological insight, metaphysical revelation, and macroscopic historical perspective.”
— L Magazine on László Krasznahorkai's Satantango
“He is obsessed as much with the extremes of language as he is with the extremes of thought, with the very limits of people and systems in a world gone mad — and it is hard not to be compelled by the haunting clarity of his vision.”
— Adam Levy, The Millions on László Krasznahorkai's Satantango
“He offers us stories that are relentlessly generative and defiantly irresolvable. They are haunting, pleasantly weird and, ultimately, bigger than the worlds they inhabit. ”
“Krasznahorkai’s mastery of structure, character, and language is matched by his ability to simultaneously weave all three together; readers can feel themselves physiologically immersed in the world of the book, itself a finely orchestrated system.”
— The New Inquiry on László Krasznahorkai's Satantango
“Intense and uncompromising.”
— W.G. Sebald on László Krasznahorkai
“This is a book about a world into which the Leviathan returned. The universality of its vision rivals that of Gogol's Dead Souls and far surpasses all the lesser concerns of contemporary writing.”
— W.G. Sebald on László Krasznahorkai's The Melancholy Of Resistance
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