/lit/ - Literature

I read Melancholy of Resistance and loved it-- it had been awhile since I had read a book so closely and feverishly that had such nihilistic gallows humor. So I jumped into Satantango right after. It didn't really "fuck me up" but marathoning two books with such a bleak (though slapstick and humorous) view of humanity totally took out my desire to read another, even though they were by far the best books I had read in a long time. I think I started mainlining philosophy and picaresque novels after that to get my head out of the gutter.

Satantango:
The dust jacket reads: "What follows is drunken, desperate and brutal as Irimías first exploits the villagers, and then leads them towards their deaths."
But No where does it mention that any of the villagers die. Irimías disperses them to different parts of Hungary to fulfill tasks (it's never revealed if he's lying or not), he sends an angry report the officials, and then collects weaponry from the gun dealer and it ends with him, the Horgos kid and Petrina talking about how they don't care about what the captain thinks that they're late. So do we just assume "he led them to their death"? (and why would they need illegally bought guns in communist Hungary?)
Is the dust jacket just wrong? Can someone explain this book to me?

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