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cuốn này ko hay như em kỳ vọng, có thể do em đọc ko tập trung sao đó. có thể một lúc khác đọc lại em sẽ thấy cái hay khác của những truyện trong này.
As usual, I loved some of these stories, and hated others. It is important to point out, that some of these are not short stories, but rather excerpts from novellas. I particularly enjoyed TV People, Mazelife, Peony Snowflakes of Love, The Yamada Diary.
Interesante compendio de relatos y extractos de novelas publicados a finales de los 80. Entre los autores se ven algunos que hoy en día son muy populares (o lo han sido) como Haruki Murakami o Amy Yamada. Es interesante descubrir nuevos (para mí) autores. En conjunto me ha parecido una antología irregular y con pocos relatos destacables, pero por aquel entonces esta iniciativa me hubiera parecido excelente. Pero colocar fragmentos de novelas largas que no se han llegado a publicar en inglés me p...
Oddly, I was given this book by one of my high school English teachers after expressing an interest in Japan and Japanese literature--and these are a collection of tales I find myself going back and reading over and over again. They are all modern to post modern, and as such have intriguing and often sexual themes from authors who are either quite popular in translation now or have yet to be published otherwise in English. Amy Yamada's Kneel Down and Kiss My Boots remains one of my favorite stor...
Ma, non era quello che mi aspettavo. Due o tre bei racconti, il manga ha un bel finale, ma non mi ha coinvolto come altri romanzi o racconti. Forse devo rimanere sulla letteratura giapponese standard.
a collection of angry, experimental writing of contemporary japanese writers. i hate how murakami wrote in this one. dwarfs and all, this kind of stuff to, ehm, artly-advanced for me.
Short fiction from the 1980s onward, even including a short manga, translated (and I assume also selected) by Murakami-translator Alfred Birnbaum. So we find cyberpunk, science-fiction and erotic tales. By far the best story is of course by Murakami Haruki, his "TV People," but as that is also included in the large Murakami short story collection The Elephant Vanishes you don't have to buy "Monkey Brain Sushi" to read it. Although translated with his usual flair by Birnbaum, I have trouble findi...
I have a thing for short stories. I love writing them. I love reading them.I also am somewhat of an (un?)closeted Japanophile.Thus Monkey Brain Sushi caught my eye at a discount book store.I have to admit that a handful of these stories were somewhat too odd/creepy/oversexualized for my taste, but this collection houses a few real gems.My personal favorite was Mazelife by Kyoji Kobayashi. It's a beautifully crafted story about a man seeking God, who quickly becomes disappointed with all the avai...
This anthology was an amazing surprise. It was full of the kind of contemporary Japanese writing I've always suspected existed, but haven't seen much of since so little of it is translated. I originally came across this book hunting for obscure translations of Genichiro Takahashi (his piece alone is worth checking the book out), but there some other great finds as well, especially Kyoji Kobayashi and Masahiko Shimada.
I had somehow gotten it into my head that this was a cyberpunk anthology; it is not. Although it has some stories with some cyberpunk-ish elements, it is exactly what it says on the tin: "new tastes" -- in other words, Japanese stories from the 80s that felt fresh and shocking to the editor in the early 90s. Because culture doesn't move terribly fast (and because these stories do not seem to have been influential on pop culture in Japan or abroad), they still feel fresh today.With the exception
bah: alla fine "fiocchi di neve di peonia" sa essere toccante (ed è di gran lunga la cosa migliore qua in mezzo), "il giorno più buio del giappone" fa alzare un sopracciglio per la curiosità (ma è roba di un attimo)e "il diario di yamada" sorprende nel suo anticipare (1988!) i videogiochi alla "the sims" (ma poco altro: la solita storia di adolescenza buttata via). peccato che tutto il resto non si lasci ricordare...
Read this years - decades - ago. It really expanded my then young mind as to what short stories could be.
This was a hit or miss for me some of the stories just weren't good or interesting. I think it's still worth a read if you like Japanese fiction.
A grab-bag, and out of date now, but nonetheless an interesting collection of stories.