![]() This is my first time reading the author. ![]() (TuskarRock, 3 July 2013, first published 1985, paperback, 274 pages, borrowed from mylibrary) In its measured prose and long, Tolstoyan sentences, Satantango isnothing short of a literary masterpiece a formal meditation on death andavarice, human fallibility and faith. Satantango follows thevillagers as they are exploited and taken in by Irimias as they drink andstumble their way toward the gradual realization of their mistake and ultimatedemise. Messianic aura as he plays on the fears of the townsfolk and a series of increasingly Them to escape the emptiness and futility of their existence. The villagers as he sets about swindling them out of a fortune that might allow Rule: his arrival heralds the beginning of a period of violence and greed for ![]() Long-thought dead – returns to the commune, the villagers fall under his spell. ![]() Flies buzz, spiders weave, water drips and animals root desultorily Of a Communist utopia, life in a desolate Hungarian town has come to a virtual ![]()
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