![]() ![]() ![]() And in any case they did not sound distant to him, these ringing-booming bells their triumphal clangor was swept along by the wind and seemed to come from somewhere close by (“It’s as if they were coming from the mill…”). ![]() The closest possible source was a lonely chapel about four kilometers southwest on the old Hochmeiss estate but not only did that not have no bell but the tower had collapsed during the war and at that distance it was too far to hear anything. It is October, “not long before the first drops of the melancholy long autumn rains began to fall on the cracked and saline soil”. So let’s open with an example of that from the opening chapter (or paragraph) which extends for 20 pages. The experience of reading it is as much one of engaging in the author’s approach to structure and voice as it is experiencing the “story”. Satantango is a novel of 274 pages, told in 12 chapters, a total of 12 paragraphs, each featuring a number of narrators. ![]()
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