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(*)(Translated by David Karashima) (★)(Titulo original : 巴 [Tomoe, 2001], A chance meeting draws the shady Otsuki to the home of a master calligrapher, where he is subjected to a bizarre pornographic movie in which shots of a teenage girl alternate with close-ups of insects. Otsuki is then introduced to the calligrapher´s attractive granddaughter, the star of the film, and is asked to shoot the remainder of the work himself. A metaphysical thriller, surreal noir, and ´moral tale´ gone wrong,´Triangle´ is an unsettling peek into the dark and irrational reality lying beneath a city. ◆Hisaki Matsuura was born in 1954. He was a professor of French literature at the University of Tokyo, with a doctorate from the University of Paris III. He first gained recognition as a poet before becoming a prizewinning critic and author. His debut as a novelist came relatively late ; his first collection of stories was ´The Jest of Things´ was published in 1996.) |