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Authors: László Krasznahorkai
Seiobo There Below (45 page)
Copyright © 2008 by László Krasznahorkai
Copyright © 2010 by S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, 2010
Copyright © 2013 by Ottilie Mulzet
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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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