23: Seiobo There Below
Endless sentences and aesthetic bliss!
The Sometime Seminar discusses László Krasznahorkai’s Seiobo There Below, a book of interconnected stories about aesthetic experience and/or religious ecstasy written in nearly endless sentences (as translated by Ottilie Mulzet).
Supplemental links: read the first chapter, “Kamo-Hunter,” online; reviews by Madeleine LaRue, Adam Z. Levy, Eric Foley, Andreas Isenschmid, Jason Farago, Celia Bell, Stephanie Newman