num_pages: 274
description: Already famous as the inspiration for the filmmaker Bla Tarrs six-hour masterpiece Satantango is proof that the devil has all the good times. The story of Satantango spread over a couple of days of endless rain focuses on the dozen remaining inhabitants of an unnamed isolated hamlet: failures stuck in the middle of nowhere. Schemes crimes infidelities hopes of escape and above all trust and its constant betrayal are Krasznahorkais meat. At the center of Satantango George Szirtes has said is the eponymous drunken dance referred to here sometimes as a tango and sometimes as a csardas. It takes place at the local inn where everyone is drunk. . . . Their world is rough and ready lost somewhere between the comic and the tragic in one small insignificant corner of the cosmos. Theirs is the dance of death. You know Mrs. Schmidt a pivotal character tipsily confides dance is my one weakness.
language: English
title: Satantango
publisher: New Directions