| Description |
148 pages ; 21 cm |
| Series |
Japanese literature series |
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Japanese literature series.
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| Contents |
Rivals -- Windows -- The Rose Tango -- The time of one's life -- Vague departure -- Fiction -- The voice -- The moon -- The boundary line -- Kitchen plays -- Picnic -- The voices of Spring |
| Summary |
"Like the surfaces of a jagged crystal, each story in this collection shows an entirely different facet when viewed from a different angle. Playing games with the basic units of both life and fiction - the solid certainties of the self, the world around us, and the words we use to describe these things to one another - Mieko Kanai creates a reality where nothing is certain, and where a little boy going out to run errands for his mother might find that he's an adult, and his mother long dead, at the end of a single train ride. Using precise language to describe dreamlike plots owing as much to Kafka and Barthelme as to Kenzaburo Oe and the long tradition of the Japanese folktale of the macabre, The Word Book is an unforgettable voyage to absurd, hilarious, and terrifying locales, and is the English-language debut for one of the greatest and most interesting Japanese writers working today."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Originally published in Japanese as "Tangoshu" by Chikuma Shobo, Tokyo, 1979 --T.p. verso |
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Translated from the Japanese |
| Subject |
Kanai, Mieko, 1947- -- Translations into English.
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Japanese fiction.
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Short stories, Japanese.
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Author |
McCarthy, Paul.
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Japanese Literature Publishing Project.
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| LC no. |
2009018378 |
| ISBN |
1564785661 |
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9781564785664 |
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