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angeladobre's review against another edition
5.0
https://booknation.ro/recenzie-satantango-de-lazslo-krasznahorkai/
ericfheiman's review against another edition
5.0
Mr. Krasznahorkai is an impressive Eastern European phantasmagoria all his own, judging from Satantango. Don’t let the single paragraph chapters scare you away. Let the bleak view of human nature do that instead. (After you finish the book, of course.) Now who’s up for the seven-hour Béla Tarr film adaptation?
theaceofpages's review against another edition
challenging
dark
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
"The taller of the two men assures his companion, saying, “The two clocks say different times, but it could be that neither of them is right. Our clock here,” he continues, pointing to the one above them with his long, slender and refined index finger, “is very late, while that one there measures not so much time as, well, the eternal reality of the exploited, and we to it are as the bough of a tree to the rain that falls upon it: in other words we are helpless.”" Set in a Hungarian village after the fall of communism, the villagers are poor and struggling. This is no an easy read - both the style (long sentences and no paragraphs (hence the lack of a space between the quote and the review)- although there are at least chapters) and the contents. It is extremally leak and the physical layout definitely added to the stifling atmosphere created in the book. I feel like this is the kind of book best read a few pages at a time - I definitely found my mind starting to wander off with the sentences if I didn't focus hard enough.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Infidelity, Animal death, Cursing, Animal cruelty, and Death
Minor: Misogyny, Classism, and Violence
froggin_around_'s review against another edition
4.0
my rating is mostly for the writing and the atmosphere, both of which I found absolutely captivating and hypnotising. however, the book fails to say anything significant about the communist state it tries to offer a metaphor of.
norameid's review against another edition
challenging
dark
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
horrifying
thebetterszoboszlai's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
mathieudmrs's review against another edition
I'm infatuated with the prose but that's the only thing that makes me want to keep going. I can see the merit in being vague as to what's going on but it's just not for me <3