Saint Sebastian's Abyss Saint Sebastian's Abyss

Saint Sebastian's Abyss

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Publisher Description

“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 a “relatively short” nine-page email, spends his flight to Berlin reflecting on Dutch Renaissance painter Count Hugo Beckenbauer 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.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2022
May 10
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
160
Pages
PUBLISHER
Coffee House Press
SELLER
Perseus Books, LLC
SIZE
5
MB

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