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PublisherCoffee House Press

ISBN-101566896363

ISBN-139781566896368

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Book TitleSaint Sebastian's Abyss

Number of Pages160 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2022

TopicAbsurdist, Literary

GenreFiction

AuthorMark Haber

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight6 Oz

Item Length7.7 in

Item Width5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2021-056206

ReviewsPraise for Saint Sebastian's Abyss A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice A New York Public Library Best Book of 2022 A May Indie Next Pick A Publishers Weekly 2022 Summer Read A Literary Hub Favorite Book of 2022 "What is it about art that can move us to extremes? This absurdist take on very serious people hazards a guess." -- The New York Times, Editor's Choice "A meditation on art that meticulously builds a fictional painter's world and critical legacy, only to playfully yet ruthlessly tear it all down. This tale of two art historical frenemies traces an apocalyptic obsession that circumscribes every waking moment of their lives." --New York Public Library "[A] sparkling comic novel. . . . Schmidt is one of Haber's keenest inventions." --Jackson Arn, The New York Times "Taut as a drum, [ Saint Sebastian's Abyss ] also calls to mind the early novellas of Roberto Bolaño and reads, at times, like an outtake from William Gaddis's The Recognitions ." --Andrew Ervin, The Brooklyn Rail "Haber relishes opportunities to tip sacred cows. . . . His critics feel so richly realized that one could be excused for Googling 'Saint Sebastian's Abyss' to glimpse at a canvas that only exists in the book." --Andrew Dansby, The Houston Chronicle "In sinuous, recursive sentences infused with equal parts reverence and venom, Haber constructs a darkly parodic portrait of aesthetic devotion and intellectual friendship, in which the redemptive practice of collaborative interpretation becomes a cage that two egos relentlessly rattle." --Nathan Goldman, Jewish Currents "A delightful and dizzying excursion into the relationship between art and criticism, and all the ways that we often deceive ourselves about the things and people we love." --David L. Ulin, Alta Journal "It's not only a farce about ill-placed obsessions--this novel, short as it is, asks profound questions about the nature and value of art and art criticism, and also manages to be a moving account of a friendship." --Emily Temple, Literary Hub " Saint Sebastian's Abyss feels exactly like the description of the painting--deceitfully small in scale, containing a cosmic abyss at its center." --Hernan Diaz "A brilliantly sustained performance: clever, droll and entrancing. Mark Haber creates something entirely new, and greatly impressive, within the Bernhardian universe." --Chloe Aridjis "In Saint Sebastian's Abyss, we are swept away by the hilarious and misguided preoccupations of two compulsive pedants, a comedy duo, whose misadventures are as irresistible as they are outrageous." --Rikki Ducornet "An absolute delight, and Haber's love of writing comes through on every page." --Idra Novey "A fantastic tale of the glories and tribulations of chasing an ecstatic relationship to art." --Matt Bell "What a wonderful, short shock of a novel this is. Funny, dark, strange, gothic, and beautiful--an extraordinary journey through three broken lives." --Edward Carey "With exuberant wit and a superb array of fine-edged paradoxes, Mark Haber flays art of its pieties and pretensions, and when the cutting's done, he has us look to see if anything's left." --Adam Sachs, Praise for Reinhardt's Garden: Longlisted for the 2020 PEN/Hemingway Award for a Debut Novel The Millions, "Most Anticipated of 2019" Texas Observer, "Best Texas Books of the Decade" "Evokes Gertrude Stein, contemporary European and South American writers like Matthias Énard, Roberto Bolaño, and César Aira, with the Quixotic atmosphere of Werner Herzog films like Fitzcarraldo. . . . A strange but lavishly imagined tale of a hard-to-describe feeling." --Kirkus "An exhilarating fever dream about the search for the secret of melancholy. . . . Haber's dizzying vision dextrously leads readers right into the melancholic heart of darkness." --Publishers Weekly " Heart of Darkness viewed in a fun house mirror." -- Library Journal [Reinhardt's Garden is] an absurdist delight, a grand adventure of passion and lunacy, a brilliant book about melancholy that is anything but doleful. - Laura Calaway, Texas Observer "Haber, who has been called 'one of the most influential yet low-key of tastemakers in the book world,' is about to raise it up a level with the debut of his novel." --The Millions "An enchanting story of satirical wit, dark humor, and luminous creativity. . . . an exhilarating grand adventure of passion, obsession and lunacy." --The Literary Review "Outstanding . . . the descent into the heart of darkness at the very core of modernity." -- BOMB Magazine "In prose as sure as a poison-laced dart, Mark Haber takes the reader on a delirious journey to the heart of melancholy." --Sjón "Jacov Reinhardt and his faithful assistant roam South America in a quixotic search for the essence of melancholy--an enterprise that makes Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, their rough contemporary, come off as a levelheaded pragmatist. To follow Reinhardt, fueled by amounts of cocaine not even Sigmund Freud could have managed, is to walk into a fascinating literary maze that spans from Ulrich Schmidl's chronicles to the decadent movements in turn-of-the-century Europe and Latin America. Melancholy has never felt more euphoric than in Mark Haber's breathless paragraph-long novel." --Hernan Diaz "An adventurous journey into the country of melancholy. A fascinating dissection of human vulnerability." --Guadalupe Nettel " Reinhardt's Garden is one of those perfect books that looks small and exotic and melancholic from the outside but, once in, is immense and exultant in the best possible way. Think Amulet by Roberto Bolaño, think Nightwood by Djuna Barnes, think Train Dreams by Denis Johnson, think Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, think Zama by Antonio Di Benedetto, think The Loser by Thomas Bernhard. Think." --Rodrigo Fresán

Synopsis"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.

LC Classification NumberPS3608.A23835S25