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Saint Sebastian's Abyss

Mark Haber

Narrator Richard Ferrone

Publisher: Recorded Books

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Summary

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.
Duration: about 4 hours (04:05:54)
Publishing date: 2022-05-10; Unabridged; Copyright Year: 2022. Copyright Statment: —