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(*)(筒井康孝, trans. by Evan Emswiller) (★)(Titulo original : ヘル [Heru→Hell] 1.Fifty-seven-year-old Takeshi has just been involved in a traffic accident. When he wakes up, he is in a strange bar, no longer crippled as he has been for most of his life, but able to walk without crutches in his everyday business suit. Looking around, he sees a number of familiar faces --Izumi, a colleague who had died in a plane crash five years before ; his childhood friend Yuzo, who had become a yakuza and had been killed by a rival gang member ; and Sasaki, who had frozen to death as a homeless vagrant. This is Hell --a place where three days can last as long as ten years on earth, and people are able to read each other´s minds and revisit the darker details of their former lives. Yuzo can now look his murderer in the face. The actress Mayumi and the writer Torigai are chased by the paparazzi into a lift that drops to floor 666 beneath ground level. The vivid depiction of the afterlife in Hell includes the traditional horrors, but subjects them to Tsutsui´s unique powers of enchantment. Witty, amusing, unparalleled for its poetic style and the wizard-like light touch of the author´s shifting focus, Hell is a masterpiece of surrealist literature. 2.Born in Osaka, Yasutaka Tsutsui is particularly well known for his science fiction. His short story O-tasuke [Help] won him the recognition and respect of Rampo Edogawa, ´the father of Japanese mystery writing´. During the 1970s Tsutsui began experimenting in a variety of styles, from slapstick and black humour to various kinds of metafiction. Winner of various awards, including the Izumi Kyoka Prize, Kawabata Prize and Yomiuri Literary Prize, he has been decorated as a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.) |
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