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Authors: László Krasznahorkai

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Copyright © 2008 by László Krasznahorkai

Copyright © 2010 by S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, 2010

Copyright © 2013 by Ottilie Mulzet

All rights reserved.
Except for brief passages quoted in a newspaper, magazine, radio, television,
or website review, no part of this book may be reproduced in any form
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and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system,
without permission in writing from the Publisher.

Originally published in Hungarian as
Seiobo járt odalent
in 2008.

The translator acknowledges the kind support of the Hungarian Translators’ House
in Balatonfüred, Hungary, where this translation was partially completed.

PUBLISHER'S NOTE: The epigraph, which recasts a Thelonious Monk line once quoted
by Thomas Pynchon, is a creation of the author.

Published simultaneously in Canada by Penguin Books Canada Ltd.

First published as a New Directions Book in 2013

Design by Erik Rieselbach

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Krasznahorkai, László.

[Seiobo járt odalent. English]

Seiobo there below / László Krasznahorkai ; translated by Ottilie Mulzet.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-0-811-22219-1 (e-book)

I. Title.

PH3281.K8866S4513 2013

894'.51134 — dc23        2013010842

New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin

by New Directions Publishing Corporation

80 Eighth Avenue, New York 10011

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The Preservation of a Buddha

Christo Morto

Up on the Acropolis

He Rises at Dawn

A Murderer Is Born

The Life and Work of Master Inoue Kazuyuki

Il Ritorno in Perugia

Distant Mandate

Something Is Burning Outside

Where You’ll Be Looking

Private Passion

Just a Dry Strip in the Blue

The Rebuilding of the Ise Shrine

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