László Krasznahorkai
László Krasznahorkai Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature 2025 László Krasznahorkai wrote in 2021 his sixth book translated into Greek in 2023, “HERSCHT 07769: The Bach Story of Florian Herscht.” Before this, his published books in Greek were “Seiobo There Below” and the informal tetralogy in which the author depicts the political situation and its social ramifications in Hungary over recent decades. In this new novel, Krasznahorkai revisits many of the thematic axes that have preoccupied him in his previous works—especially in the tetralogy. In the first book of the tetralogy, “Sátántangó,” the central motifs are the Devil, Judgment Day, and the long-awaited Messiah. Cannibalism, deceit, and moral decay—especially among children and siblings—embody evil devouring human souls. Divine providence and fate, on one side, and human will and freedom of choice, on the other. Imagination versus sensory perception. Our understanding of the world is geometric, shaped by our senses...
