Krasznahorkai is a visionary writer even the strangest developments in the story convince, and are beautifully integrated within the novel's dance-like structure. (.) (T)his is an obviously brilliant novel. László Krasznahorkai's scenes are designed to disorient and defamiliarise. (.) If this summary of the first half of the novel sounds baffling, it's a hell of a lot clearer than the book itself. It is brutal, relentless and so amazingly bleak that it's often quite funny. "(A) monster of a novel: compact, cleverly constructed, often exhilarating, and possessed of a distinctive, compelling vision – but a monster nevertheless. So ist Satanstango nicht nur ein beißender Kommentar zu den letzten Tagen des Sozialismus in Ungarn, sondern eine Parabel über die Condition humaine." - Judith Leister, Frankfurter Allegemeine Zeitung
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