“MASTER OF THE APOCALYPSE”
Krasznahorkai, the second Hungarian to win the prize, has been described because the postmodern “grasp of the apocalypse”.
“He’s a hypnotic author,” Krasznahorkai’s English language translator, the poet George Szirtes, instructed AFP.
“He attracts you in till the world he conjures echoes and echoes inside you, till it is your individual imaginative and prescient of order and chaos”.
Exploring themes of postmodern dystopia and melancholy, his first novel introduced Krasznahorkai to prominence in Hungary and stays his best-known work.
“The novel portrays, in powerfully suggestive phrases, a destitute group of residents on an deserted collective farm within the Hungarian countryside simply earlier than the autumn of communism,” the Academy mentioned.
Till now, the late Imre Kertesz was the one Hungarian to win the Nobel literature prize in 2002 for his semi-autobiographical novel “Fatelessness” about surviving the Holocaust.
Born in Gyula, a small city in southeast Hungary in 1954, Krasznahorkai grew up in a middle-class Jewish household.
He has drawn inspiration from his experiences below communism, and the in depth travels he undertook after first transferring overseas in 1987 to West Berlin for a fellowship.
His novels, quick tales and essays are greatest recognized in Germany – the place he lived for lengthy durations – and Hungary, the place he’s thought of by many because the nation’s most essential residing creator.
Critically troublesome and demanding, his type was described as soon as by Krasznahorkai himself as “actuality examined to the purpose of insanity”.
His penchant for lengthy sentences and few paragraph breaks has additionally seen the author labelled as “obsessive”.
Requested in regards to the apocalyptic pictures in his work, Krasznahorkai mentioned: “Perhaps I am a author who writes novels for readers who want the sweetness in hell”.
Krasznahorkai had an in depth inventive partnership with Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr. A number of of his works have been tailored into movies by Tarr, together with “Satantango” and “The Werckmeister Harmonies”.
Their collaboration has garnered important acclaim. In 1993, he obtained the German Bestenliste Prize for the most effective literary work of the yr for The Melancholy of Resistance.
