The brilliant Nobel Prize lecture by László Krasznahorkai, who was awarded for 'his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art' WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2025'It may seem to you that I am standing here and speaking into a microphone, but I'm not' begins László Krasznahorkai, delivering his 2025 Nobel Lecture to a rapt audience in Stockholm. In his mind, he explains, he is pacing the room, the room in the tower he is in, the tower that is only a tower because of the incline of the hill, all the while considering the presence of angels, the force of humanity and how, from our degraded current epoch, destruction might emerge -or rebellion.