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. 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. He soon attains a messianic aura as he plays on the fears of the townsfolk and a series of increasingly brutal events unfold. Somehow, though, both prose and cinematic narrative manage to keep the.
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. It rains a lot in Satantango, both on page and on screen. But when the charismatic Irimias - long-thought dead - returns to the commune, the villagers fall under his spell. It received a Best Translated Book Award in English in 2013. The book is a dystopian novel set in his homeland of Hungary, and is considered his best known work. Flies buzz, spiders weave, water drips and animals root desultorily in the barnyard of a collective farm. In 1985, his debut novel Satantango achieved success, and he was immediately thrust into the forefront of Hungarian literary life. In the darkening embers of a Communist utopia, life in a desolate Hungarian town has come to a virtual standstill.
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