Mieko Kanai

Mild Vertigo

Übersetzer: Barton, Polly

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The apparently unremarkable Natsumi lives in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and two sons: she does the laundry, goes to the supermarket, visits friends, and gossips with neighbors. Tracing her conversations and interactions with her family and friends as they blend seamlessly into her own infernally buzzing internal monologue, Mild Vertigo explores the dizzying reality of being unable to locate oneself in the endless stream of minutiae that forms a lonely life confined to a middle-class home, where both everything and nothing happens. With shades of Clarice Lispector, Elena Ferrante, and Kobo Abe, this verbally acrobatic novel by the esteemed novelist, essayist, and critic Mieko Kanai-whose work enjoys a cult status in Japan-is a disconcerting and radically imaginative portrait of selfhood in late-stage capitalist society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 199mm x 128mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 204g
• ISBN-13: 9780811232289
• ISBN-10: 081123228X
• Artikelnr.: 66226906

Autorenporträt

Born in 1947, Mieko Kanai is a novelist, poet, essayist, and critic. She has published around thirty novels and short story collections, and her critical essays have been featured in Japanese newspapers and magazines for almost fifty years. In the English-speaking world, she is perhaps best known for her story "Rabbits," a gory retelling of Alice in Wonderland where a young girl puts on a suit made of freshly skinned rabbit fur.