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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Krasznahorkai's extraordinary first novel is back - and more devilish than ever.
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2025
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, the villagers fall under his spell. Irimias sets about swindling the villagers 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.
Translated by George Szirtes and Ottilie Mulze
Praise for Satantango: Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2025
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A modern masterpiece that manages to speak both of its time and to transcend it altogether - Sunday Telegraph
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A monster of a novel: compact, cleverly constructed, often exhilarating - Guardian
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