WRITER

László Krasznahorkai

1954 - Today

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László Krasznahorkai (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈlaːsloː ˈkrɒsnɒhorkɒi]; born 5 January 1954) is a Hungarian novelist and screenwriter known for difficult and demanding novels, often labeled postmodern, with dystopian and melancholic themes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of László Krasznahorkai has received more than 463,721 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). László Krasznahorkai is the 1,966th most popular writer (up from 2,634th in 2019), the 220th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 272nd in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Hungarian Writer.

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  • 36

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  • 2.98

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Notable Works

Animal inside
2011
Az utolsó farkas
2009
Al Norte la montaña, al Sur el lago, al Oeste el camino, al Este el río
2008
Guerra y guerra
2009
Állatvanbent
2010
The Melancholy of Resistance
Husband and wife, City and town life, Fiction
A powerful, surreal novel, in the tradition of Gogol, about the chaotic events surrounding the arrival of a circus in a small Hungarian town. _The Melancholy of Resistance_, László Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in a small Hungarian town. A circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the largest whale in the world, arrives in the dead of winter, prompting bizarre rumors. Word spreads that the circus folk have a sinister purpose in mind, and the frightened citizens cling to any manifestation of order they can find music, cosmology, fascism. The novel's characters are unforgettable: the evil Mrs. Eszter, plotting her takeover of the town; her weakling husband; and Valuska, our hapless hero with his head in the clouds, who is the tender center of the book, the only pure and noble soul to be found. Compact, powerful and intense, _The Melancholy of Resistance_, as its enormously gifted translator George Szirtes puts it, "is a slow lava flow of narrative, a vast black river of type." And yet, miraculously, the novel, in the words of The Guardian, "lifts the reader along in lunar leaps and bounds."
1998

Among WRITERS

Among writers, László Krasznahorkai ranks 1,966 out of 7,302. Before him are Pir Sultan Abdal, Pierre Klossowski, Vasyl Sukhomlynsky, Hincmar, Robert Southey, and Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac. After him are Miloš Crnjanski, Fan Zhongyan, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, Péter Esterházy, Theodorus Gaza, and Shaul Tchernichovsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, László Krasznahorkai ranks 98. Before him are Al Di Meola, Lina Romay, Elvis Costello, Viktor Medvedchuk, Steve Morse, and Katey Sagal. After him are Rafael Orozco Maestre, Sergey Naryshkin, Annie Sprinkle, Abdelilah Benkirane, Dieter Müller, and Chris Noth.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, László Krasznahorkai ranks 220 out of 1,077. Before him are George Szell (1897), Hans Swarowsky (1899), Miklós Fehér (1979), Rezső Seress (1889), László Kövér (1959), and László Szabó (1917). After him are Miloš Crnjanski (1893), Péter Esterházy (1950), Andrew Grove (1936), Mihály Lantos (1928), Imre Schlosser (1889), and András Hegedüs (1922).

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Among WRITERS In Hungary

Among writers born in Hungary, László Krasznahorkai ranks 22. Before him are Mór Jókai (1825), Attila József (1905), Péter Nádas (1942), Hannah Szenes (1921), Viktor Barna (1911), and György Konrád (1933). After him are Miloš Crnjanski (1893), Péter Esterházy (1950), Rosika Schwimmer (1877), Anton Bernolák (1762), Frigyes Karinthy (1887), and Janus Pannonius (1434).

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