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Satantango (1985)

by László Krasznahorkai(Favorite Author)

4.23 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0811217345 (ISBN13: 9780811217347)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

New Directions

review 1: "He gazed sadly at the threatening sky, at the burned-out remnants of a locust-plagued summer, and suddenly saw on the twig of an acacia, as in a vision, the progress of spring, summer, fall and winter, as if the whole of time were a frivolous interlude in the much greater spaces of eternity, a brilliant conjuring trick to produce something apparently orderly out of chaos, to establish a vantage point from which change might begin to look like necessity . . . and he saw himself nailed to the cross of his own cradle and coffin, painfully trying to tear his body away, only, eventually, to deliver himself--utterly naked, without identifying mark, stripped down to essentials--into the care of people whose duty it was to wash the corpses, people obeying an order snapped out in ... morethe dry air against a background loud with torturers and flayers of skin, where he was obliged to regard the human condition without a trace of pity, without a single possibility of any way back to life, because by then he would know for certain that all his life he had been playing with cheaters who had marked the cards and who would, in the end, strip him even of his last means of defense, of that hope of someday finding his way back home."
review 2: this book isn't as relentlessly grim as melancholy of reistance or war and war, which is one of the most relentlessly grim pieces of fiction i've ever read probably. everyone is covered in mud and slime the w hole time though, so it's good. and it's actually kind of funny sometimes even. the best part is at the end when the doctor discovers that order is imposed upon chaos by not cleaning your room. i tell that to my mom but she won't listen. jokes on her i'm 36 years old i don't have to do whta she says anymore... less

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