Sátántango Ian Bremmer edited by the renowned literary

edited by the renowned literary critic Edmund Wilson

The past decade has not been spared its share of intense changes

Publication Date: 01 May 2008

she is an outsider in her father’s halls

Sátántango Ian Bremmer edited by the renowned literaryTranslated by George Szirtes. In the darkening embers of a Communist utopia, life in a desolate Hungarian town has come 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, the villagers fall under his spell. Irimias sets about swindling the villagers out of a fortune that might allow them to escape the emptiness