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Satantango
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 to the commune the villagers fall under his spell The Devil has arrived in their midstIrimias will divide and rule his arrival heralds the beginning of a period of violence and greed for the villagers as he sets about swindling them out of a fortune that might allow them to escape the emptiness and futility of their existence He soon attains a messianic aura as he plays on the fears of the townsfolk and a series of increasingly brutal events unfoldSatantango follows the villagers as they are exploited and taken in
by Irimias; as they drink and stumble their way toward the gradual realization of their mistake and ultimate demise In its measured prose and long Tolstoyan sentences Satantango is nothing short of a literary masterpiece; a formal meditation on death and avarice human fallibility and faith
by Irimias; as they drink and stumble their way toward the gradual realization of their mistake and ultimate demise In its measured prose and long Tolstoyan sentences Satantango is nothing short of a literary masterpiece; a formal meditation on death and avarice human fallibility and faith
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