Hungarian Novelist Worth Reading
I’m a sucker for obscure central European novelists, so I read Adam Thirwell‘s New York Review essay on Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai (pictured) with interest: ‘Although he may have led a countercultural transatlantic life (he lived in Allen Ginsberg’s New York apartment for a while, where he met at the kitchen table with David Byrne, Patti Smith, and Philip Glass), Krasznahorkai still remains little known in New York or London.’ Krasznahorkai’s 1985 novel, “Satantango,” has recently been published in an English translation by George Szirtes.
