The Swedish Academy of Arts announced the award of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature to Hungarian writer Russell, in recognition of "his remarkable and visionary work, in the horrors of the end of the world, reaffirming the power of art."

This can be said to be the most "accurate" in the odds list for the Nobel Prize in Literature in recent years-although the odds list can only be used as a reference, it should be known that Laszlo has topped the list several times this year. First place and remained second for a long time.

The picture shows Nobel Prize winner Laszlo

Not hard, but hard to read.

Russell's book was extremely vague and difficult to read, "read half a page and still see no sentence" became his personal style.

The "difficult" writer, which includes almost all important Hungarian literary awards, such as the Cosworth Prize, the Maloy Prize, his works "Satan Tango", "Relationship of Charity" and "The Sorrow of Rebellion" have all been introduced to Chinese publication.

Satan Tango was first published by Russell in 1985 (later adapted by Hungarian director Tar Béla to a seven-and-a-half-hour black-and-white storyline).

Satanic Tango was Laszlo's first work published in 1985

This "Satan's Tango", which made him famous, was described by the translator Yu Zemin as "although it is not thick, it is absolutely difficult to read in one breath".

Russell's novel is almost unparalleled in paragraphs, long texts read like "an ancient language without a point", sentences are sticky, wrapped, like volcanic melt flowing, so that every line of reading is difficult.

He rested his elbows on the pillow, propped up his body, and looked out through the small mouse-hole window in the kitchen wall, the window glass covered with a thin layer of fog. Under the dark blue curtain, the farm bathed in the fading bells, still dumb and still. Across the street, among the houses far apart from each other, only the doctor's curtained windows filtered out there. There was only light because the owner of the house had not been able to sleep in the dark for many years. -A sentence from "Satan's Tango", 215 words in total

The Satanic Tango page.

Yu Zemin is known as "the Chinese voice of contemporary Hungarian literature", but when he translated Satan's Tango, he claimed to have finished the translation work with "a sense of heroism like a moth gnawing a stone beam".

When he finished translating the last word, he immediately lost his breath and told the editor: "If this book is dozens of pages longer, I guess I will suffer from depression." He couldn't help complaining to the editor that the novel was difficult to translate: "Now I really want to stomp my feet, shout, smash things, drop books, and never want to see it again!"

Russell loves to write long sentences, and he says this is in line with his thinking habit: ¡°How a person thinks, what sentences they choose. And people will not only think in long sentences, but will think in a single sentence, which never ends. Especially when he wants to say something in particular, especially when he wants to convince whom. And I have such words to say, I want to convince readers to believe what I am writing.¡±

Despair and hope crossed.

Krasnohorkai Laszlo-Even among foreigners, the name is as obscure as his works.

The surname "Krasnohorsk" is derived from the name of a castle in Slovakia, which was burned a decade ago due to a fire caused by smoking by two boys.

It may seem like the eight-barrel of Laszlo today, but Laszlo felt that he had experienced six fires as a child, especially when the library was burned by a big fire as a rural library administrator, he lost his job and had to go back to the city to write.

The story of "Satan Tango" takes place in a dilapidated village. In the rainy and muddy late autumn season, more than a dozen villagers who had nowhere to make a living performed live dramas of alcoholism, adultery, conspiracy, betrayal, dreams and broken dreams (a type of drama that presents current affairs news in the form of drama). Until the appearance of two scammers ignited everyone's hope. But they did not realize that these "saviors" were actually the devil Satan, leading them through the cycle of death steps.

Russell¡¯s life picture.

In the eyes of many readers, the world under Russell¡¯s pen is filled with ruin and ruin, and Satan¡¯s Tango is also absolutely black. But in Russell¡¯s view, Satan¡¯s Tango is neither a dark work nor a tragedy, but a comedy about unfounded beliefs.

In fact, this novel comes from a warm story.

When Laszlo just graduated from college, he was still passionate about "saving poverty with culture", which is why he went to the rural library mentioned above to work as an administrator. It was a small town inhabited by gypsies and had a low level of education. The last librarian before him was an alcoholic. After Laszlo arrived at the library, he not only carefully catalogued all the books, but also wrote dozens of notices and distributed them to schools and residents 'homes, inviting readers to come.

He recruited dozens of children to teach them how to read in a story-telling way, to read fairy tales for those children who had barely touched books.When the children were gradually attracted to the stories in the books, Russell started a "readbook class", inviting actors, writer friends to meet with the children, and the quiet countryside also created a cultural wave.

Cover of "Melancholy of Resistance"

A year later, this library was reduced to ashes in a fire-the inspiration for Satanic Tango came from the special feelings brought by this experience. The intersection of despair and hope also runs through more of his works.

Ooyang River assessed Russell's work, believing that his work, although difficult to read, "is extremely precious as a literary dancing quality that is almost extinct, because what it insists and witnesses is not only a particular hobby, style, patience, but literary questioning in the ultimate sense, literature itself under the definition of the source."

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It can be said that compared with China readers who understand Laszlo, Laszlo knows China better-he is a "Hungarian fan" of Li Bai.

According to Zhejiang's memories, in 1991, Russell came to China as a journalist, and was deeply fascinated by China, not only saying that China is the "only humanitarian museum in the world", but also asking the whole family to eat chopsticks after returning home.

Cover picture of "Benevolent Relations"

Later, Yu Zemin accompanied Laszlo on a trip to China for a month. The two spent a month setting out from Beijing and following Li Bai's footsteps to nearly ten cities including Tai 'an, Qufu, Luoyang, Xi'an, and Chengdu. He cherished any place Li Bai had visited in another time and space. Once when traveling down the Yangtze River, the cruise ship temporarily changed its route and did not stop at Baidi City. Laszlo excitedly quarreled with the captain-Yu Zemin recalled that this was because Laszlo liked the poem "Early Emergence of the White Emperor City" very much and he was afraid that he would never have the chance to come here again in his life.

During that time, Laszlo conducted a large number of interviews and recorded a full fourteen tapes. He stopped China passing by and asked them: "Do you know who Li Bai is?" "Can you recite Li Bai's poems?" "Why do you like Li Bai?" "Assuming Li Bai was sitting next to him now, what would you like to say most to him"... even "Do you think Li Bai and Yang Guifei were lovers?"

The world is moving forward.

After this trip, he wrote a long-lived prose. The stories about China and Eastern culture were written in several works by him. Loving China, Russell has always been eager for Chinese readers to read his text. But in fact, Russell's work was not successful in publication in China until he won the International Book Award and began to introduce it to the domestic book market.

However, starting tonight, none of this is a problem: Red Star News reporters noticed that only 20 minutes after the award was announced, Laszlo's work was sold out on multiple platforms in China. His "Melancholy of Resistance" and "Benevolent Relations" were launched by Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House. After the awards were announced, Yu Wenjun, president of the press, told Red Star News that they were preparing to print them: "At least 40,000 to 50,000 copies are ready."

The Red Star reporter Mao Tse-tung.