00:00We shouldn't wait for an apocalypse. We are living now in an apocalypse.
00:05This year's Nobel Prizes for Literature remind us of exactly that.
00:10László Krasná Horkáy, the Hungarian writer known for his dense, dystopian prose,
00:16has won the Nobel Prize for Literature in the midst of apocalyptic terror for reaffirming the power of art.
00:23His debut, Satan Tango, is a hypnotic portrait of decay and despair.
00:28His works, written in long, unbroken sentences, refuse to look away from the cures of the world.
00:36Krasná Horkáy, remind us that resistance and imagination are acts of survival.
00:42At Outlook, we have been asking the same questions.
00:45In All is Well, we turned satire into rebellion,
00:49challenging the happy news that hides the cracks beneath celebration.
00:53And in My Dear Apocalypse, we explored a planet in purgatory.
00:58Endless wars, pandemic, climate catastrophe,
01:02asking if this right now is the apocalypse that scriptures spoke of.
01:08Hope then comes from here.
01:11From those who still imagine, still resist, still write.
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