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."
Seiobo There Below
László Krasznahorkai
$17.95
- SKU:
- 9780811219679
- UPC:
- 9780811219679
- Gift wrapping:
- Options available
- Published by:
- New Directions
- Translated by:
- Ottilie Mulzet
- Pub date:
- 09/24/2013
- Binding type:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 448
- ISBN:
- 9780811219679