A (Very) Brief Introduction to László Krasznahorkai

As I wrote yesterday - Hungarian László Krasznahorkai being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature is excellent news. It may yet be that our civilization’s print culture and its rituals will be able to survive the oncoming decades of domination by the image. As well as the sudden return of communication via orality (the stream and podcast). If that is to be the case, the literati, hipsters and critics of the future will now be spared having to add Krasznahorkai’s name to their lists of great writers (Tolstoy, Borges and Proust, McCarthy) who were cheated. For once kudos to the good people in Stockholm. He has been on the betting odd sheets (standing at 33 to 1 a few years ago) for around a decade and a half.