László Krasznahorkai Interview: I Didn’t Want to Be a Writer

A castle and solitary knights in the mist. Sounds like the scene of a fairy tale, doesn’t it? In fact, this is a small town on the Romanian-Hungarian border in which the lauded Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai grew up. Watch him share his engaging story, which includes a job as a night watchman for a dairy farm. “I see Gyula as being sort of like a book of legends where basically nothing is real although it could be.” Krasznahorkai recalls the extraordinary characters that inhabited his childhood tow