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Read work by the 2004 PEN Translation Fund Award winners in PEN America 6.
Home > Laszlo Krasznahorkai

Satantango
This novel is the source of Bela Tarr's 415-minute black-and-white masterpiece of the same title, adapted with the author and released about a decade later. The Melancholy of Resistance, a subsequent novel by the same author, which has already been translated into English (by the brilliant George Szirtes; New Directions, 2000), evinces a stylistic similarity to Thomas Bernhard. Satantango is a ferocious piece of sarcasm, traversing the same day from various viewpoints lik a Faulkner novel while recounting the last bitter gasps of a failed farm collective and everything its members do to betray one another.

Recommended by Jonathan Rosenbaum.

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