Krasznahorkai László profile

       In The Guardian Richard Lea has a nice profile of Krasznahorkai László (whose Satantango seems to have made quite an impression).
       I like the concluding bit:

He gestures to the computer sitting on the table at his elbow. "This is the result of 10,000 years ? Really ? We have microphone, laptop, this technical society -- that's all ? This is sad, and very disappointing. After so many geniuses in the human story from Leonardo to Einstein, from the Buddha to Endre Szemerédi, these are fantastic figures, and their work is unbelievably important and we cannot do anything with it -- why ?"

       (Endre Szemerédi is the Abel Prize-winning mathematician.)