A Mountain to the North, A Lake to The South, Paths to the West, A River to the East

A Mountain to the North, A Lake to The South, Paths to the West, A River to the East - László Krasznahorkai

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"My introduction to Krasznahorkai was “Seiobo There Below”, which I also found wonderful, although it did take time to sink into the flow of sentences that could run on for 30 or 40 pages. But what made it at wonderful to me was its clear look into the reactions of various human beings to some degree of direct contact with different dimensions of the ground of being - what Harold Bloom might have called the Sublime. There was little attention paid to the endless realms of drama that arise in n day to day human life. “A Mountain to the North “ goes further with this contemplation because it’s a slow beautiful meandering drift along a reedy stream of silence. Ch’an Master Hui-neng said that the purpose of life was s to simply see truly, and the purpose of “A Mountain to the North “ is to simply see truly. It’s Zein’s meaningless meaning and pointless point, and I loved it." - Amazon Customer Reviews

A quiet, poetic, and exquisitely gorgeous novel describing a wandering mythic figure in a Kyoto monastery

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 travels of cypress-tree seeds on the wind, feral foxes and stray dogs meandering outside the monastery’s walls), making this an unforgettable meditation on nature, life, history, and being.