The universality of Krasznahorkai's perspective dispels any doubts about contemporary literature. W. G. Sebald writes about the Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai, who was awarded twice in 2010 for "Seiobo at the Earth," receiving both the Brücke-Berlin Prize and the Spycher Literature Prize, Leuk. Seiobo is a Japanese goddess whose peaches bloom only once every 3000 years, yet grant immortality. Our belief in such stories has long since faded, but not our longing for them. László Krasznahorkai explores this longing in his new book. He observes how, in every era and in all cultures, there have been and continue to be perfect things: the heron standing motionless in the river, the grimace of a No mask, the utter nakedness in the face of an icon, the fragility of a Buddha statue. Krasznahorkai's narratives are overwhelming.