Seiobo There Below

These stories range across eras and cultures, with characters who step out sometimes from biblical times and sometimes from the present day. Their heroes are not only living people: other elements of the world become heroes too, things that might best be called works of art in the widest sense of the word. They are the creations of nature, of creation itself, or of a transcendent essence assumed to be in the world, perfect in themselves, beautiful without purpose and finally without meaning, yet irresistible and impossible to avoid. In one, a figure looks at a group of angels and knows at once that they are real.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

426 pages in the original

First published

2008 by Magvető

Author's age

54 when first published

ISBN

9789631426601 (original)

9780811219679 (New Directions, United States)