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László Krasznahorkai


Born
in Gyula, Hungary
January 05, 1954

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Genre
Postmodernism, Contemporary, Fiction

Influences
Franz Kafka, Thomas Bernhard, Samuel Beckett ...more


László Krasznahorkai is a Hungarian novelist and screenwriter who is known for critically difficult and demanding novels, often labelled as postmodern, with dystopian and bleak melancholic themes. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2025.

He is probably best known through the oeuvre of the director Béla Tarr, who has collaborated with him on several movies.

Apart from the Nobel Prize, Krasznahorkai has also been honored with numerous literary prizes, among them the highest award of the Hungarian state, the Kossuth Prize, and the 2015 Man Booker International Prize for his English-translated oeuvre.

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“It passes, but it does not pass away.”
― Laszlo Krasznahorkai
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“...what one ought to capture in beauty is that which is treacherous and irresistible...”
― László Krasznahorkai, War & War
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“Get it into your thick head that jokes are just like life. Things that begin badly, end badly. Everything's fine in the middle, it's the end you need to worry about.”
― László Krasznahorkai, Satantango
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Polls

February 2016 New School Group Read

 
  25 votes, 18.1%

1950, The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, 182 pages
 
  20 votes, 14.5%

1979, The Neverending Story by Michael Ende, 396 pages
 
  15 votes, 10.9%

 
  13 votes, 9.4%

1954, Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan, 113 pages
 
  13 votes, 9.4%

 
  10 votes, 7.2%

1934, Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller, 318 pages
 
  10 votes, 7.2%

 
  8 votes, 5.8%

1931, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, 418 pages
 
  8 votes, 5.8%

1947, If This Is a Man by Primo Levi, 398 pages
 
  4 votes, 2.9%

 
  3 votes, 2.2%

1936, South Riding by Winifred Holtby, 492 pages
 
  3 votes, 2.2%

1962, The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, 640 pages
 
  3 votes, 2.2%

1985, Satantango by László Krasznahorkai, 274 pages
 
  3 votes, 2.2%

138 total votes
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