Északról hegy, délről tó, nyugatról utak, keletről folyó
by László Krasznahorkai
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Kiotó mellett, egy kolostor az úti célja Genji herceg unokájának, aki több száz éve próbál rábukkanni a századik kertre, a világ rendjét kifejező legegyszerűbb és legtökéletesebb helyre. A regény a kutatás egyik állomását mutatja be, a kolostor megtalálását, az udvarok, szentélyek, és kertek rendját járja végig. A keleti környezetben játszódó regény mese, példázat, egyszerre felkavaró és megnyugtató szöveg: a kert megtalálását illetve
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Fiction, Hungarian Literature, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels, 21st Century, Novella
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The grandson of Prince Genji lives outside of space and time and wanders the grounds of an old monastery in Kyoto. The monastery, too, is timeless: a place of prayer and deliverance, with barely a trace of any human presence. The wanderer is searching for a garden that has long captivated him: “he continually saw the garden in his mind’s eye without being able to touch its existence.”
This exquisitely beautiful novel by National Book Award winner László Krasznahorkai—perhaps his most serene and poetic work— describes a search for the unobtainable and the riches to be discovered along the way. Despite the difficulties in finding the garden, the reader is closely introduced to the construction processes of the monastery (described in poetic detail) as well as the geological and biological processes of the surrounding area (the underground layers revealed beneath a bed of moss, the transportation of cypress-tree seeds by the wind, feral foxes and stray dogs meandering outside the monastery’s walls),making this an unforgettable meditation on nature, life, history, and being.
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