Reinhardt's Garden
- 168 Seiten
- 6 Lesestunden
In this delightfully dense, fast-paced comedy with notes of Laszlo Krasznahorkai and Saul Bellow, Jacov and his scribe cross continents in search of the legendary prophet of melancholic philosophy.
Mark Haber Bücher
Mark Haber ist ein Erzähler, dessen Werk sich mit der Komplexität menschlicher Beziehungen und unerwarteten Wendungen des Lebens befasst. Durch seinen unverwechselbaren Stil bietet er den Lesern tiefe Einblicke in die Geheimnisse der Existenz. Habers Talent liegt in seiner Fähigkeit, tiefgründige Charaktere und Situationen zu erschaffen, die zum Nachdenken über die Natur von Gut und Böse anregen. Seine Erzählungen zeichnen sich durch ironischen Humor und ungewöhnliche, aber glaubwürdige Handlungsstränge aus.
"What I wanted more than anything was to be standing beside Schmidt, in concert with Schmidt, at the foot of Saint Sebastian's Abyss along with Schmidt, hands cupped to the sides of our faces, debating art, transcendence and the glory of the apocalypse." Former best friends who built their careers writing about a single work of art meet after a decades-long falling out. One of them, called to the other's deathbed for unknown reasons by way of a "relatively short" nine page email, spends his flight to Berlin reflecting on Renaissance painter Count Hugo Beckenbaur and his masterpiece, Saint Sebastian's Abyss, the work that established both men as important art critics and also destroyed their relationship. A darkly comic meditation on art, obsession, and the enigmatic power of friendship, Saint Sebastian's Abyss stalks the museum halls of Europe, feverishly seeking salvation, annihilation, and the meaning of belief.
