Satantango
HK$170.00
DESCRIPTION :
Now in paperback, Satantango, the novel that inspired Béla Tarr’s classic film, is proof that the devil has all the good times. Set in an isolated hamlet, the novel unfolds over the course of a few rain-soaked days. Only a dozen inhabitants remain in the bleak village, rank with the stench of failed schemes, betrayals, failure, infidelity, sudden hopes, and aborted dreams. “Their world,” in the words of the renowned translator George Szirtes is “rough and ready, lost somewhere between the cosmic and tragic, in one small insignificant corner of the cosmos. Theirs is the dance of death.” Into this world comes, it seems, a messiah…
PRODUCT DETAILS :
DIMENSION : 203 mm x 137 mm
WEIGHT : 284 g
PRODUCT CATEGORY :
Fiction & Related items
Now in paperback, Satantango, the novel that inspired Béla Tarr’s classic film, is proof that the devil has all the good times. Set in an isolated hamlet, the novel unfolds over the course of a few rain-soaked days. Only a dozen inhabitants remain in the bleak village, rank with the stench of failed schemes, betrayals, failure, infidelity, sudden hopes, and aborted dreams. “Their world,” in the words of the renowned translator George Szirtes is “rough and ready, lost somewhere between the cosmic and tragic, in one small insignificant corner of the cosmos. Theirs is the dance of death.” Into this world comes, it seems, a messiah…
PRODUCT DETAILS :
| ISBN : 9780811220897 | |
| BY (AUTHOR) Krasznahorkai, László , TRANSLATED BY Szirtes, George | |
| PUBLISHER : New Directions Publishing Corporation | PUBLICATION DATE : January 28, 2014 |
| COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United States | IMPRINT : New Directions Publishing Corporation |
| LANGUAGE : English | AGE : General |
| PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback | |
WEIGHT : 284 g
PRODUCT CATEGORY :
Fiction & Related items
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