It is not usual for a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature to end up in one of the popular places. Last year’s gift holder was an exception. Common in middle and apuest house predictions, Laszlo Krasznahorkai He was recognized for “his conmovedor and visionary work that reaffirms the power of art in the midst of apocalyptic terror,” according to a pledge from the former Academy.
The Magyar author chose the city Barcelona as his first destiny to make a public speech at the Nobel Prize. He offered a journey at the Center de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) that was communicated in the language of his country, in line with the speech in favor of minority languages given at the Nobel Prize ceremony.
Visit our territory months before reading Spanish bookstores Herscht 07769on a new novel in which he emerges for the first time in the vicissitudes of his home country, Germany. Specifically, the story takes place in a fictional village in the Thuringia region, in the eastern part of the German state, where the rise of neo-Nazism, a phenomenon that is central to the book, is most acutely recorded.
So the salt of the hungry, who is the protagonist of most of his novels, and the one who confirms that he is “Better not touch it for non-Hungarians”. For the author El baron Wenckheim go home (Acantilado, 2024), which ended with the first novel, The Satanic TangoWhen he was still a “star of the Soviet regime” in his country in 1985, in his childhood he did not feel in the territory that was an exception in Central Europe until “Hunger was in the world”.
Oddly enough, I read it once at the age of three, at the same years as I continued to write first jobwhen I crossed the border into Austria and left as soon as possible “Alcoholic sky and pale grass turned into blue and green light”.
Indeed, Krasznahorkai states that “it was very easy to write about a world in which the second morning was the same as the first. In which nothing had changed, it was ecstatic”. Then he followed her with idealism: “When we were finally able to rise, everything was surprising. We didn’t see the West with its problems, we didn’t identify it. We all saw it idealized, freedom, the ability to express… let’s take a closer look at what also had more problems before the fronteras.”
Even the winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize for Literature usually claims to be a master at it portrait of “misery”Magyar matiza: “I’m not writing about poverty, but about poverty. They are two equivalent concepts, but not the same. People have culture. They don’t have money, but they have spirit. Poverty is absolute poverty, both on the earthly and spiritual levels. I tried to show more the state of absolute misery, where we are most stuck.”
Here again: “In any case, I will not reduce what I write to a reflection of social misery.” In return, and in line with what the Nobel Committee expressed, he emphasizes the value that art places in its works as “a human category that does not require a technological world that allows the reader to fly into free space from which he can return later”. Artistic aspiration, which according to the Hungarian writer an Rare avis today: “Now I have very popular baratijs, which seemed unthinkable years ago. They are the enemies of literature.”
A vision he remembered and shared with his companion and friend Bela Tarr: “He was a person who suffered a lot of pain, because creating art was a way to escape from everything that was needed. I tried to help him in this way. He was a very complicated person, demanding of everyone who worked with him, and I advised him in everything. I remember that we knew him because he studied medicine at my house after he left it The Satanic Tango. I had a terrible response, but I couldn’t talk about my book and my vision. Let us agree on the way of the world, because we are not interested in a communist regime. I told myself I wanted to understand my cosmic imagination, but I insisted it was in my eyes, not in me.’
A great admirer of this doppelgänger of Hungarian creators, Susan Sontag’s famous statement about László Krasznahorkai, who was called the “master of the apocalypse”, read in the novel The Melancholy of Resistance. “Many people are offended by this statement, in this respect I can say that the ‘apocalypse’ is something continuous, it is not a supposed ‘last moment’ if that is the form in which the story unfolded. It is a dynamic of coming and going. We are always alive in the apocalypse.”
“Bad people like Vladimir Putin have always existed. Things are not good, of course, but that’s how it is.” they never get along well“, defines the writer. However, we must not fall into pessimism until we consider that “we always thought that we saved it, it moved us forward in this world”.
This thing is translated into “angels” in his novels, which has a revelatory meaning and is sacrificed for collective sins. Yes, something has changed in the last few years, regardless: “Before the victims, they understood their thoughts and the bare truth was found to be offensivenow no one would want to understand it, no one would recognize that it is a mensaje, but they will continue to sacrifice them”.
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