We already have a subsequent novel by the same author in English, ‘The Melancholy of Resistance’, pointing to a stylistic similarity between Krasznahorkai and Thomas Bernhard, but something tells me that ‘Sátántangó’ is even better: a ferocious piece of sarcasm, traversing the same day from various viewpoints like a Faulkner novel while recounting the last bitter gasps of a failed farm collective and everything its members do to betray one another.” – Jonathan Rosenbaum about “Sátántangó”. “Laszló Krasznahorkai's Hungarian novel, published in 1985, is the source of Béla Tarr's 415-minute black and white masterpiece of the same title, adapted with the author and released about a decade later perhaps the greatest Hungarian film I've seen. I'd be glad to see it every year for the rest of my life." – Susan Sontag. "Devastating, enthralling for every minute of its seven hours. In original cloth, with illustrated dust jacket, designed by Pál Deim. First edition of Krasznahorkai’s debut novel.
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