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Satantango (novel)Satantango (Hungarian: S�t�ntang�, tr. "Satan's Tango") is a 1985 novel by the Hungarian writer L�szl� Krasznahorkai. It is Krasznahorkai's debut novel. It was adapted into a widely acclaimed seven-hour film, S�t�ntang� (1994), directed by B�la Tarr. The English translation by George Szirtes won the Best Translated Book Award (2013).

Plot
The novel is a postmodernist piece, and while it has a plot, many details are not outlined and remain unclear. It consists of two parts, and each part consists of six sections; sections of the second part are numbered in reverse order. Every chapter is a long paragraph which does not contain line breaks.

Most of the action occurs in a run-down Hungarian village ("estate") which is in a vicinity of an unnamed town but the inhabitants are almost isolated from the outside world. The main character, Irimi�s, a con man posing as a savior, arrives at the estate, achieves an almost unlimited power over the inhabitants, gets them to give him all their hard-earned money, convinces them to move to another abandoned �estate

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