Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasnahorkai wins Nobel Prize in Literature
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Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasnahorkai wins Nobel Prize in Literature
Hungarian author László Krasznáhorcái has won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was awarded the prize “for his assured and visionary literary body, which speaks of the power of art in times of great catastrophe and terror.”Writer László Krasznáhorcái was born in 1954 in Gyula, a small town in southeastern Hungary near the Romanian border. A remote rural area like Gyula is the setting for Krasznáhorcái’s first novel, Satantango (first published in 1985).The novel tells the story of a group of poor people living on an abandoned cooperative farm in rural Hungary, living in uncertainty and despair on the eve of the collapse of socialism.Satantango has caused a stir in the Hungarian literary world. This book has been recognized as László Krasznáhorka's breakthrough novel.After reading his second novel, The Melancholy of Resistance (published in 1989, English translation 1998), American critic Susan Sontag called him the "master of apocalypse" of contemporary literature.
The Melancholy of Resistance depicts a terrifying nightmare. A ghostly circus troupe enters a small mountain town in the Carpathians, the main attraction of which is the carcass of a huge whale. This bizarre and alarming event unleashes various destructive forces within the city. Violence, anarchy, and military failure bring the city to the brink of a totalitarian coup. The author beautifully portrays the brutal conflict between order and chaos, from which no one is immune.In the third novel, the author chooses a setting outside the borders of Hungary. The central character of the novel War and War (published in 1999, English translation 2006) is an ordinary archive employee. Who decides to move to New York in the last moments of his life.The continuation of this novel is the author's novel 'Baron Venkheim's Homecoming' (published in 2016, English translation 2019). The protagonist of the novel is returning to his homeland (Hungary). A landowner who has become destitute due to gambling addiction is returning to Hungary after spending many years in Argentina to find his childhood love. However, his traveling companion, 'Dante', is a deceitful character. Dante leads him astray.
The author's most recent book, Hearst 07769 (published in 2021, English translation 2024), is set in a small town in Thuringia, East Germany. The town is filled with contemporary reality and social unrest. The atmosphere of the story is overshadowed by the music and tradition of the musician Bach. In this novel, the main character realizes that he has also become part of the destructive forces in whom he believed.László Krasznáhorkay's writing is influenced by Kafka and Thomas Bernhard. László Krasznáhorkay is an epic poet in the Central European tradition.László Krasznáhorkay's writing style is unique. The Nobel Committee has described him as 'a thoughtful, finely measured voice'.Source: From the Nobel Committee's website, Nobel Prize.org
