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Original title Sátántangó Language Hungarian Publication date 1985 Originally published 1985 Page count 333 ISBN 9631403831 | 4.2/5 Goodreads Country Hungary Publisher Magvető Könyvkiadó Published in English 2012 Translator George Szirtes Adaptations Satantango (1994) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Satantango (Hungarian: Sátántangó, tr. "Satan's Tango") is a 1985 novel by the Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai. It is Krasznahorkai's debut novel. It was adapted into a widely acclaimed seven-hour film, Sátántangó (1994), directed by Béla Tarr. The English translation by George Szirtes won the Best Translated Book Award (2013).
Reception
Jacob Silverman of The New York Times reviewed the book in 2012, and wrote that it "shares many of [Krasznahorkai]'s later novels' thematic concerns — the abeyance of time, an apocalyptic sense of crisis and decay — but it's an altogether more digestible work. Its story skips around in perspective and temporality, but the narrative is rarely unclear. For a writer whose characters often exhibit a claustrophobic interiority, Krasznahorkai also shows himself to be unexpectedly expansive and funny here."