Peter Cornell’s The Ways of Paradise - The Brooklyn Rail

Peter Cornell’s novel-in-notes The Ways of Paradise is itself an enigma, even as it pursues a whole complex of enigmatic and esoteric phenomena spanning millennia, languages, cultures, and discourses, from art history to literature to politics, all pointing to something invisible—and terrible—at the center.

Word count: 2704 Paragraphs: 16 Peter Cornell The Ways of Paradise Translated from the Swedish by Saskia Vogel Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2024 “Each landscape, no matter how calm and lovely, conceals a substrata of disaster … The hells of geology remain to be discovered. If art history is a nightmare, then what is natural history?” —Robert Smithson, “Art Through the Camera’s Eye,” ca. 1971 “The Lord proceeded to show him the ways of paradise and said to him, ‘These are the ways that men have lost by not walking in them.’” —Pseudo-Philo, Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum , ca. 100 CE The difference bet

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