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Unusual Fragments: 20th Century Japanese Fiction

Unusual Fragments: 20th Century Japanese Fiction

Coolidge, Sarah

Paperback

Series: Calico

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN10: 1949641759
ISBN13: 9781949641752
Publisher: Two Lines Press
Published: Mar 11 2025
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.87 Width: 5.98 Depth: 6.85
Language: English

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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