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Film
fromwww.courant.com
1 day ago

Hungarian director Bela Tarr, known for his bleak and beautiful films, dies at 70

Béla Tarr, acclaimed Hungarian filmmaker known for lengthy, bleak, black-and-white films and collaborations with László Krasznahorkai, died at age 70 after a long illness.
Miscellaneous
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago

It has become difficult to live': Hungarian writers bemoan country's hostile environment

Gyula honors Laszlo Krasznahorkai's Nobel win while many Hungarian writers emigrate amid growing repression under Viktor Orbán's Fidesz government.
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

The Political Power of Timeless Art

His sentences can go on for hundreds of pages; his plots don't resolve, they dissolve; and his persistent mood is existential dread. But the Hungarian novelist's central theme is easily parsed and sadly evergreen. Krasznahorkai writes about the stultifying effects of political oppression, but he also writes in defiance of people's readiness to accept them. As a result, his work is equal parts depressing and invigorating.
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