Seiobo There Below - Laszlo Krasznahorkai - Books - New Directions Publishing Corporation - 9780811219679 - September 24, 2013
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Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Seiobo There Below

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The latest novel from ?the contemporary Hungarian master of the apocalypse? (Susan Sontag)

Seiobo ? a Japanese goddess ? has a peach tree in her garden that blossoms once every three thousand years: its fruit brings immortality. In Seiobo There Below, we see her returning again and again to mortal realms, searching for a glimpse of perfection. Beauty, in Krasznahorkai?s new novel, reflects, however fleetingly, the sacred ? even if we are mostly unable to bear it. Seiobo shows us an ancient Buddha being restored; Perugino managing his workshop; a Japanese Noh actor rehearsing; a fanatic of Baroque music lecturing a handful of old villagers; tourists intruding into the rituals of Japan?s most sacred shrine; a heron hunting.? Over these scenes and more ? structured by the Fibonacci sequence ? Seiobo hovers, watching it all.

440 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released September 24, 2013
ISBN13 9780811219679
Publishers New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pages 440
Dimensions 139 × 203 × 33 mm   ·   498 g
Language English  
Contributor Ottilie Mulzet

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