LÃ¡szlÃ³ Krasznahorkai,George Szirtes
Already famous as the inspiration for the filmmaker BÃ©la Tarrâ€™s six-hour masterpiece, ,Satantango, is proof that â€œthe devil has all the good times.â€ ,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 Krasznahorkaiâ€™s meat. â€œAt the center of ,Satantango,,â€ George Szirtes has said, â€œis 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.â€ ,â€œYou know,â€ Mrs. Schmidt, a pivotal character, tipsily confides, â€œdance is my one weakness.â€
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Satantango