(P/B) SATANTANGO

Παρουσίαση

Already famous as the inspiration for the filmmaker B?la Tarr's six-hour masterpiece, Satantango is proof, as the spellbinding, bleak, and hauntingly beautiful book has it, that "the devil has all the good times." The story of Satantango, spread over a couple of days of endless rain, focuses on the dozen remaining inhabitants of an unnamed isolated hamlet: failures stuck in the middle of nowhere. Schemes, crimes, infidelities, hopes of escape, and above all trust and its constant betrayal are Krasznahorkai's meat. "At the center of Satantango," George Szirtes has said, "is the eponymous drunken dance, referred to here sometimes as a tango and sometimes as a csardas. It takes place at the local inn where everyone is drunk... Their world is rough and ready, lost somewhere between the comic and tragic, in one small insignificant corner of the cosmos. Theirs is the dance of death." "You know," Mrs. Schmidt, a pivotal character, tipsily confides, "dance is my one weakness." (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

The First Part
News of Their Coming
We Are Resurrected
To Know Something
The Work of the Spider I
Unraveling
The Work of the Spider II
(The Devil's Tit, Satantango)
The Second Part
Irimias Makes a Speech
The Perspective, as Seen from the Front
Heavenly Vision? Hallucination?
The Perspective, as Seen from the Back
Nothing but Work and Worries
The Circle Closes