# Satantango

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- Book: [Satantango](https://www.bookquiver.com/laszlo-krasznahorkai/satantango) ([Satantango.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/laszlo-krasznahorkai/satantango.md))
- Authors: [Laszlo Krasznahorkai](https://www.bookquiver.com/laszlo-krasznahorkai), [Grover Gardner](https://www.bookquiver.com/grover-gardner), [George Szirtes](https://www.bookquiver.com/george-szirtes)
- Publisher: atlantic_books
- ISBN: 978-18-4887-765-8
- Published: 2013-07-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize In the darkening embers of a Communist utopia, life in a desolate Hungarian town has come to a virtual standstill. Flies buzz, spiders weave, water drips and animals root desultorily in the barnyard of a collective farm. But when the charismatic Irimias – long-thought dead – returns to the commune, the villagers fall under his spell. The Devil has arrived in their midst. Irimias will divide and rule: his arrival heralds the beginning of a period of violence and greed for the villagers as he sets about swindling them out of a fortune that might allow them to escape the emptiness and futility of their existence. He soon attains a messianic aura as he plays on the fears of the townsfolk and a series of increasingly brutal events unfold. Satantango follows the villagers as they are exploited and taken in by Irimias; as they drink and stumble their way toward the gradual realization of their mistake and ultimate demise. In its measured prose and long, Tolstoyan sentences, Satantango is nothing short of a literary masterpiece; a formal meditation on death and avarice, human fallibility and faith.