SeioboNa Japanese goddessNhas a peach tree in her garden that blossoms once every 3,000 years: its fruit brings immortality. Over several scenes of ordinary life around the world--structured by the Fibonacci sequence--Seiobo hovers, watching it all in the latest novel from Othe contemporary Hungarian master of the apocalypseO (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."