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Satantango

by Laszlo Krasznahorkai

Slow narrative of a morally ambiguous con man orchestrating final corruption

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Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Laszlo Krasznahorkai

Hungarian author whose dense, apocalyptic prose has been compared to Kafka, Beckett, and Thomas Bernhard. Satantango is his masterpiece, a black-comic portrait of a collapsing Hungarian collective farm that Bela Tarr adapted into a seven-hour film.

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