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(★)(Translated by Nancy Andrew／ 英文版 限りなく透明に近いブルー／ ´Almost Transparent Blue´ is a brutal tale of lost youth in a Japanese port town close to an American military base. Murakami´s image-intensive narrative paints a portrait of a group of friends locked in a destructive cycle of sex, drugs and rock´n´roll. The novel is all but plotless, yet the raw and often violent prose takes us on a rollercoaster ride through reality and hallucination, highs and lows, in which the characters and their experiences come vividly to life. Trapped in passivity, they gain neither passion nor pleasure from their adventures. Yet out of the alienation, boredom and underlying rage and grief emerges a strangely quiet and almost equally shocking beauty.／ As Ryuu Murakami´s first novel, written when he was twenty-three, ´Almost Transparent Blue´ won the coveted Akutagawa literary prize in 1976 and became an instant bestseller. Representing a sharp and conscious turning away from the introspective trend of postwar Japanese literature, it polarized critics and public alike and soon attracted international attention as an alternative view of modern Japan.／ ◆Ryu Murakami was born in 1952 and grew up in the port city of Sasebo in western Japan before moving to Tokyo to study at the Musashino College of Art. Having quickly established himself as the enfant terrible of Japanese literature with ´Almost Transparent Blue´, Ryu Murakami remains at the cutting edge of popular culture in Japan. He is a prolific author of fiction and non-fiction, and has achieved cult-status for his movies and screenplays, including ´Tokyo Decadence´ and ´Audition´.) |
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