Unusual Fragments: Japanese Stories by Inagaki

Unusual Fragments: Japanese Stories by Inagaki Taruho, Sarah Coolidge, Kono Taeko, Takagi Nobuko, Takahashi Takako

• Unusual Fragments: Japanese Stories
• Inagaki Taruho, Sarah Coolidge, Kono Taeko, Takagi Nobuko, Takahashi Takako
• Page: 200
• Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
• ISBN: 9781949641752
• Publisher: Two Lines Press

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With tales of alienation told with deadpan humor and terrifying force, Unusual Fragments introduces the powerful but undertranslated peers of Osamu Dazai and Kōbō Abe A young storm-chaser welcomes a jaded woman into the eye of a storm. The last man of a peculiar family, implausibly tiny in stature, attends a Mozart opera with his dedicated wife. A medical student coolly observes an adolescent boy as he contorts his body into violent positions. With tension and wit, the writers of Unusual Fragments, among them Nobuko Takagi, Yoshida Tomoko, and Inagaki Taruho, trace their taboo, feminist, bizarre themes to complicate what we think of as 20th century Japanese literature. What’s hiding just beneath the fiction of our perfectly ordered, happy lives? Something unusual. Something far more interesting.

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