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Saint Sebastian's Abyss
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Saint Sebastian's Abyss
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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.
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Saint Sebastian's Abyss is praised as a comic novel that examines art and criticism through the tumultuous friendship of two critics obsessed with a 16th-century painting. Reviewers highlight its humour and absurdity, reflecting on the nature of art, intellectual rivalry, and elitism. The book is described as tightly written and thought-provoking, drawing comparisons to authors like Roberto Bolaño and William Gaddis, with a unique mix of reverence, satire, and heartfelt exploration of friendship and obsession.
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ISBN: 9781566896368
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 23 June 2022
Country: United States
Imprint: Coffee House Press
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 127.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 200
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About the Author
Mark Haber is the author of the 2008 story collection Deathbed Conversions and the novel Reinhardt's Garden, longlisted for the 2020 PEN/Hemingway Award. He is the operations manager at Brazos Bookstore in Houston, Texas. His nonfiction has appeared in the Rumpus, Music & Literature, and LitHub. His fiction has appeared in Southwest Review and Air/Light.
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