Quote by László Krasznahorkai: “There's no way out, and that itself is the way out.”

When every visible exit is closed, the realization of that fact is itself a strange kind of freedom. Accepting that there is no escape from a situation — rather than endlessly searching for one — can be the beginning of a different relationship with that situation. The impossibility becomes the answer.

Krasznahorkai published Satantango in 1985, during the final, gray phase of Hungarian communism. The novel depicts a collective farm in a state of terminal decay, where the inhabitants are manipulated by a charismatic con man promising renewal. The mood of the novel is one of absolute exhaustion — a world that cannot continue and yet continues.

Hungarian novelist whose work, including Satantango and The Melancholy of Resistance, is known for its long, spiraling sentences and its sustained investigation of apocalyptic despair and dark humor. He has won the Man Booker International Prize and is widely regarded as one of the most significant European writers of his generation.