Now in paperback, Satantango, the novel that inspired Bela Tarr's
classic film, is proof that the devil has all the good times. Set
in an isolated hamlet, the novel unfolds over the course of a few
rain-soaked days. Only a dozen inhabitants remain in the bleak
village, rank with the stench of failed schemes, betrayals,
failure, infidelity, sudden hopes, and aborted dreams. "Their
world," in the words of the renowned translator George Szirtes is
"rough and ready, lost somewhere between the cosmic and tragic, in
one small insignificant corner of the cosmos. Theirs is the dance
of death." Into this world comes, it seems, a messiah...
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