Description
Title: Seiobo There Below
Author: László Krasznahorkai
ISBN: 9780811219679
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2013
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: English Language Translation
Number of Pages: 448
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher : 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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