Fülszöveg
In the darkening embers of a Comnnunist Utopia, life in a Hungarian town has conne 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.
Is he a prophet, a secret agent - or the devil himself?
This edition includes new pages that were lost from the
original of George Szirtes' acclaimed English translation,
ten years in the making. It is the definitive version of Krasznahorkai's first masterpiece.
This majestic translation finally gives us its inimitable, nightmarish pleasures at first hand' Sunday Times
'What strikes the reader above all are the extraordinary sentences switching from solemn to madcap to quizzical' Man Booker International Prizejudges' citation
'Compact, cleverly constructed, often exhilarating and possessed of a distinctive, compelling vision' Theo Tait, Guardian...
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Fülszöveg
In the darkening embers of a Comnnunist Utopia, life in a Hungarian town has conne 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.
Is he a prophet, a secret agent - or the devil himself?
This edition includes new pages that were lost from the
original of George Szirtes' acclaimed English translation,
ten years in the making. It is the definitive version of Krasznahorkai's first masterpiece.
This majestic translation finally gives us its inimitable, nightmarish pleasures at first hand' Sunday Times
'What strikes the reader above all are the extraordinary sentences switching from solemn to madcap to quizzical' Man Booker International Prizejudges' citation
'Compact, cleverly constructed, often exhilarating and possessed of a distinctive, compelling vision' Theo Tait, Guardian
'An inexorable, visionary book by the contemporary Hungarian master of apocalypse who inspires comparison with Gogol and Melville' Susan Sontag
'Far surpasses all the lesser concerns of contemporary writing'
W. G. Sebald
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