Laszlo Krasznahorkai

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Faces of Krasznahorkai

László Krasznahorkai’s complex world is rooted in Central Europe and its literatures, where absurdity and beauty coexist, yet circulate globally. Krasznahorkai’s vision resists mainstream simplification and confronts the “stupidity” of modern civilization. Through dialogues between literature, film, and visual arts, Imre József Balázs traces how an artist’s work transforms despair into a haunting affirmation of art’s enduring power.

28.10.2025

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The Politics of Fiction: The Author of Satantango wins the Nobel Prize in Literature

Long considered as one of Europe’s most formidable writers, Krasznahorkai’s winning of the Nobel Prize reveals the long process that writers from East-Central Europe need for recognition. His visionary and unsettling work had an almost cult-like group of readers in Hungary already in the 1980s, but the international recognition arrived slowly. Yet through good translators and change of focus, his world of decay and irony gradually claimed its place in the global literature.

15.10.2025