Apocalyptic Terror: Laszlo Krasznahorkai Takes the Nobel Prize

Two masters of the absurd.

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 has been awarded to the Hungarian author Laszlo Krasznahorkai, “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art," the Swiss Academy announced in a press release this morning.

To further reaffirm the power of art, we expound on the implications of Krasznahorkai's Nobel win in a language even more impenetrable than Hungarian.

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