Shadow of a Blue Cat - Brossura

II, Naoyuki

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1564786412 ISBN 13: 9781564786418

Casa editrice: Dalkey Archive Pr, 2011

Riassunto

Businessman Yuki Yajima is fifty-one years old. He and his wife, Asako, are the parents of two daughters: Ryo, seventeen, and Yuka, an infant of only two months. Asking himself why hes allowed himself to become a father again at his age, Yuki begins to remember his uncle, who died quite youngyounger, indeed, than Yuki is now. Thinking of this man, whom the young Yuki idolized, and who first introduced the boy to authors like Kenzaburo Oe and the Marquis de Sade, serves as a strange tipping point: allowing a sense of chaos and complexity back into his otherwise well-heeled life. A rare work of fiction focused simply on a man of integritya dying breed, in novelsThe Shadow of a Blue Cat meticulously renders his life and opinions as Yuki tries to find a middle path between the radicalism of his uncles life and the quiet bourgeois home hes worked so hard to build.

From The Shadow of a Blue Cat:
Perhaps I should start with a disclaimer. I am not some fresh-faced kid of seventeen or twenty, or even a relatively green thirty, which some people actually argue should be considered below the age of majority these days. No, the fact is, Ive already slid right on past the big five-oha milestone no one thinks is very pretty and few are eager to reachto become a man of fifty-one. Now if a reader were to say that its unsettling to have someone whos passed the half-century mark presenting himself as the narrator of a novel styled after the young writers of a generation ago, I would have to agree he has a point. But however much I may agree, I expect to press ahead in exactly such a style, for as I struggle to come to terms with my fifty-something self, it has become all too uncomfortably clear to me that a style more suited to a man my age simply does not exist.

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L'autore

After graduating from Keio University, Naoyuki Ii made his debut in 1983 with Kusakanmuri (The Grass Radical), which won the Gunzo Prize for New Writers. Wayne P. Lammers has won a NEA Translation Grant and a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship for his translations, including Aska Mochizuki's Spinning Tropics, Mitsuyo Kakuta's Woman on the Other Shore, and Junzo Shono's Evening Clouds.

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Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Dalkey Archive Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1564786412
• ISBN 13: 9781564786418
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 270
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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