László Krasznahorkai - Satantango - Book Review 

Thanks Silje, you're so kind 😊 hope you have a great reading weekend!

your English seems good to me! that's wonderful you're able to read him in the original. who are some of your other favorite writers, Hungarian or non?

PaperBird It's quite sad but most of my favourite Hungarian writers are not available in English translation. Or even if some of their works are translated, not the best ones in my opinion. But here's a short list: Magda Szabó, Péter Esterházy, Sándor Márai, Ferenc Barnás. A few of their books has English editions. And I could write a much longer list of the authors who should be translated. =) Besides Hungarian literature I mainly read contemporary Scandinavian authors, e.g. Per Petterson, Kim Leine, Roy Jacobsen, Lars Saabye Christensen, Tore Renberg, Jussi Valtonen, Sofi Oksanen, Kjell Askildsen... And I adore the Russian greats, Dostoevsky is my all time favourite.

thanks for the list! mostly in that region i've just read Tarjei Vesaas but someone on IG gave me some interesting recs for Norwegian writers. funny i recently just read some Per Petterson.

Thanks!

i watched the film in parts like a miniseries while doing the dishes, it's breathtaking like his other work. let me know what you think of The Melancholy of Resistance. i browsed thru Krasz's other works, they look like amazing reads

thank you! :)

not sure the composer, it's from the Turin Horse trailer

@@PaperBird Thanks. Looks like its by Mihály Víg

very cool, i'll check the video out! coincidentally, i recently read TMoR, also very dark and delicious :)

Hi Crystal! Yeah seems more misses than hits lately tbh. Need to find more works like Satantango!

sometimes i'll get lost in a heavy style and lose track of what's going on or come to realize there isn't much going on, by design, it's those writers who can keep me reading in spite of that which i have a tendency to really like. mostly it's a fascination w/ how they arrive at their technique

I suppose I read for the story-the beginning, the middle and the end. I like plot development. I like to read something that has a conclusion. When I read 'Satantango' nothing made sense/it was nightmarish world. I remember that scene in the novel the girl walking dragging herself down a muddy road during a storm at night and finally collapsing at the tavern door-I just remember this novel being bewildering. peace

Great strategy, works. Are you going to brave the film?

haha, i'll try to tone that stuff down, thanks for the feedback

@@PaperBird It didn't ruin the video, which I really appreciate existing at all. But I don't know that it is a technique that really works with this sort of content. So thanks.

The inserts are great tf