World Literature Today, January 1st, 1995
Among the "second generation" writers of fiction bent on portraying the unspeakable horrors, utter hopelessness, and almost eerie apocalypse of the socialist reality of Eastern Europe, Laszlo Krasznahorkai marches in the vanguard. Few - perhaps only Adam Bodor (see WLT 68:1, p. 174) - can surpass him in presenting night-marish tales unfolding in sinister, gulaglike enclosures, populated by subhuman monsters, hypnotized zombies, or Forrest Gump-like holy fools. The perpetually dreary atmosphere is pregnant with both Kafkaesque ambiguities and magical realism reminiscent of Garcia Marquez and ...
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