Author: Ryu Murakami
Translator: Seong-rye Han
Publisher: Dongbang Media
Hardcover | 216 pages | 195*133mm
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About This Book
A youth of college age, his older mistress, friends--random friends, they might
be called--living near an American military base and experimenting with drugs
both hard and soft. In rapidly sketched scenes gliding from the everyday real to
the hallucinatory, the author has used what he himself calls his "narrative zoom
lens." The novel is all but plotless, but the imagery is tellingly vivid, "the
literary equivalent of genre painting," according to one critic.
The participants seem caught in their hard-rock scene, sadly unfree, having
neither the will nor the energy to break away. And over all there seems to hang
the heavy shadow of self-destructiveness, not only in terms of their present
situation but with regard to what the future holds for them--and the question is
inescapable, for human society as well? In this mirror reflecting the present,
personal relations deteriorate, violence of the moment erupts, and communication
inches slowly towards nullity. One asks, eventually, if the hallucinations,
whatever their source, are so very far from the vague misgivings and hopeful
imaginings of the man in the street.
The author coolly and unsentimentally distills from this morass a feeling of
something pure and unsullied. His technique, with its lack of taboos, of moral
condemnation, and of the superfluous, comes very close to the insouciance of
cinema verite, in which there is also a touch of surrealism.
Representing a sharp and conscious turning away from the introspective trend of
postwar Japanese literature, this work polarized critics and public alike and
soon attracted international attention, a sign of winds of change, if not
specifically of things to come.
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