Seiobo There Below

Laszlo Krasznahorkai (New Directions)

Seiobo There Below
Format
Paperback
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Country
United States
Published
20 December 2013
Pages
448
ISBN
9780811219679

Seiobo There Below

Laszlo Krasznahorkai (New Directions)

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.

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