Satantango - SIGNED, LOCATED & DATED FIRST PRINTING

Krasznahorkai, Laszlo

ISBN 10: 1848877641 / ISBN 13: 9781848877641

Published by Tuskar Rock, London, 2012

About this Item

Fine first printing in fine dust wrapper. The book is squre, tight and unread. No reading creases or evidence of wear to book or dust wrapper. The dust wrapper is complete and unmarked. Signed, dated and located by the author to the title page: 'Laszlo Krasznahorkai in Hay on Why (sic) May 29 2015'. Very scarce with these attributes. Krasznahorkai attended the Hay Festival in 2015, the year his novel Seiobo There Below won the Man Booker International Prize. The Nobel prize winning author's first UK publication.

Seller Inventory # 009955

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Satantango - SIGNED, LOCATED & DATED FIRST PRINTING
• Publisher: Tuskar Rock, London
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848877641
• ISBN 13: 9781848877641
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

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 to the commune, the villagers fall under his spell. The Devil has arrived in their midst.

Irimias will divide and rule: his arrival heralds the beginning of a period of violence and greed for the villagers as he sets about swindling them 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.

Satantango follows the villagers as they are exploited and taken in by Irimias; as they drink and stumble their way toward the gradual realization of their mistake and ultimate demise. In its measured prose and long, Tolstoyan sentences, Satantango is nothing short of a literary masterpiece; a formal meditation on death and avarice, human fallibility and faith.

About the Author

Laszlo Krasznahorkai is a Hungarian writer born in 1954. Krasznahorkai has been honoured with numerous literary prizes, among them the highest award of the Hungarian state, the Kossuth Prize and, in 1993, the German Bestenliste Prize for the best literary work of the year.