Its story skips around in perspective and temporality, but the narrative is rarely unclear. Jacob Silverman of The New York Times reviewed the book in 2012, and wrote that it 'shares many of 's later novels' thematic concerns - the abeyance of time, an apocalyptic sense of crisis and decay - but it's an altogether more digestible work. The purpose of the whole exercise is to give Irimiás money and power. The main character, Irimiás, 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' nearby, and then brings them to the town, where he disperses them around the country. 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. Every chapter is a long paragraph which does not contain line breaks. It consists of two parts, and each part consists of six sections sections of the second part are numbered in reverse order. The novel is a postmodernist piece, and while it has a plot, many details are not outlined and remain unclear. The English translation by George Szirtes won the Best Translated Book Award (2013). It was adapted into a widely acclaimed seven-hour film, Sátántangó (1994), directed by Béla Tarr.

'Satan's Tango') is a 1985 novel by the Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai.

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