László Krasznahorkai

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born

January 05, 1954 in Gyula, Hungary

gender

male

website

http://www.krasznahorkai.hu/

genre

Literature & Fiction, Arts & Photography

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László Krasznahorkai is the difficult, peculiar, obsessive, visionary Hungarian author of eight novels.

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

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Books by László Krasznahorkai

Average rating: 4.24 · 1,077 ratings · 267 reviews · 11 distinct works

	The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai, George Szirtes (Translator) 4.23 avg rating — 208 ratings — published 1989 — 9 editions	My rating:
	War and War 4.43 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Satantango by László Krasznahorkai, George Szirtes 4.22 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 1985 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Animalinside by László Krasznahorkai, Max Neumann (Illustrator), Ottilie Mulzet (Translator) 4.03 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Északról hegy, Délről tó, Nyugatról utak, Keletről folyó 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Az utolsó farkas 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Az urgai fogoly 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Megőrülni a Paradicsomban 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	Kegyelmi viszonyok 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1997	My rating:
	Rombolás és bánat az ég alatt 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2004	My rating:

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“It passes, but it does not pass away.”
― László Krasznahorkai

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“...what one ought to capture in beauty is that which is treacherous and irresistible...”
― László Krasznahorkai, War and War

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“There is an intense relationship between proximate objects, a much weaker one between objects further away, and as for the really distant ones there is none at all, and that is the nature of God.”
― László Krasznahorkai

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