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Where Europe Begins
多和田葉子
出版
New Directions Publishing
, 2002
主題
Fiction / General
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Short Stories (single author)
ISBN
0811215156
9780811215152
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=nN0Hu3QkoAwC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Where Europe Begins presents a collection of startling new stories by Japanese writer Yoko Tawada. Moving through landscapes of fairy tales, family history, strange words and letters, dreams, and every-day reality, Tawada's work blurs divisions between fact and fiction, prose and poetry. Often set in physical spaces as disparate as Japan, Siberia, Russia, and Germany, these tales describe a fragmented world where even a city or the human body can become a sort of text. Suddenly, the reader becomes as much a foreigner as the author and the figures that fill this book: the ghost of a burned woman, a woman traveling on the Trans-Siberian railroad, a mechanical doll, a tongue, a monk who leaps into his own reflection. Tawada playfully makes the experience of estrangement -- of a being in-between -- both sensual and bewildering, and as a result practically invents a new way of seeing things while telling a fine story.