Leo Walker’s Reviews > Satantango > Status Update

Chapter five of this book is one of the most upsetting things I have ever read. Like staring into a festering gash (complimentary). Krasznahorkai's prose (rendered in English by George Szirtes) demands such close scrutiny to discern the separation of its phrases and clauses & spends so much time rendering coherent the minutest deeds of the townsfolk, bored and enervated into cruelty, that *that* caught me off-guard