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A review by kerryvaughan
Satantango by László Krasznahorkai
challenging
dark
funny
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
3.0
1. Satantango by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
First book of the year, finally done. It shouldn’t have taken a week to read this fairly short book. But it did. Because I didn’t connect with it like I wanted to. Everything about it is something I love on paper. It’s bleak? It’s funny? It’s “profoundly unsettling”? It’s about a possible devil coming to town and screwing everyone over? A *checks notes* tango?? With Satan?? Say less bro
But I must have expected *more* bleakness and profound unsettlement. Or maybe I had too much distraction going on in real life. That’s the only reason I can think of for not vibing with this like I thought I would or wanted to. Even when I think about it, I rationally think “this book’s rad” but I emotionally think “….meh.”
I learned after reading this that there’s a six or seven hour long classic movie of this. Have you watched it? Is it worth it? That’s a long time to be dragged by the nose through the mud by Irimias, which perhaps is the exact point of the movie’s length.
I’ll still read all the other Lasz Kraz on my TBR but maybe won’t rush out to get them. I have so many other valued books to read, already in my grubby little hands, unless Irimias talks me into giving them all to him. #2025books
First book of the year, finally done. It shouldn’t have taken a week to read this fairly short book. But it did. Because I didn’t connect with it like I wanted to. Everything about it is something I love on paper. It’s bleak? It’s funny? It’s “profoundly unsettling”? It’s about a possible devil coming to town and screwing everyone over? A *checks notes* tango?? With Satan?? Say less bro
But I must have expected *more* bleakness and profound unsettlement. Or maybe I had too much distraction going on in real life. That’s the only reason I can think of for not vibing with this like I thought I would or wanted to. Even when I think about it, I rationally think “this book’s rad” but I emotionally think “….meh.”
I learned after reading this that there’s a six or seven hour long classic movie of this. Have you watched it? Is it worth it? That’s a long time to be dragged by the nose through the mud by Irimias, which perhaps is the exact point of the movie’s length.
I’ll still read all the other Lasz Kraz on my TBR but maybe won’t rush out to get them. I have so many other valued books to read, already in my grubby little hands, unless Irimias talks me into giving them all to him. #2025books