To the great Hungarian writer, Lassowe awarded the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences This year’s Nobel Prize in Literature; “For his fascinating and visionary work that, in the midst of apocalyptic horror, confirms the power of art”.

The author was born in 1954 in Gyula, Hungary. He studied law and literature at the Universities of Zegendy and Budapest. He is considered one of the most important contemporary Hungarian writers, who faithfully serves a literature ambitious and demanding. He has been honored with many awards, including the Kossuth Award, which is the most important distinction of Hungary. In 2015, he won the “Booker” award, which took off his reputation. His works have been translated into English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Czech, Bulgarian, Hebrew, Japanese and Greek.

And it is true that the Hungarians know the dialectic of suffering-sound, they know how to read the look of man and how it is even illuminated in gloomy times, they know what it means to maintain a absurd optimism where everything looks dark.

From his first appearance in literature to the nightmares, mystical landscapes of the “satanic tango”, Laslo Krasnachorkai resists the human soul with the cold accuracy of a philosopher and a poet’s intense sensitivity. On the pages of “resides” the melancholy of a growing Europe, the anxiety of a culture that has lost God and desperately seeks to replace him with an idol: history, power, science or man himself.

Every party is breath, every dot a temporary redemption. And in this pace a strange serenity is revealed: the certainty that chaos has its own harmony, that the end is not a disaster, but a transition. Krasnachorki writes as others pray. With fear and awe. His heroes wander the ruins of hope, carrying a metaphysical fatigue: the certainty that the world cannot be saved and yet continue to walk, as if they could. There is his shocking humanity.

Reading Krasnachorki, the reader finds no consolation. But he finds the truth. And this truth, however dark it is, shines like a spark in the night, like the last light that refuses to erase. Perhaps, in the end, this is his gift: to remind us that, even when everything is lost, the awareness of loss is a form of salvation.

After his second book, “The Melancholy of Resistance”, American critic Susan Sodag described Laslo Krasnachorki as a “meter of revelation” of modern literature. Two of his books (“The Tango of Satan” and “The Melancholy of Resistance”) have been transferred to the cinema by his friend Bella Tar, for whom he has also written original scripts.