Almost Transparent Blue

Almost Transparent Blue Author: 村上龍
Publisher: Kodansha Amer Incorporated

This controversial novel touched the raw nerves of the Japanese and became a million seller within six months of publication.

Almost Transparent Blue

Almost Transparent Blue Author: 村上竜
Publisher: Kodansha

This controversial novel touched the raw nerves of the Japanese and became a million seller within six months of publication.

Almost Transparent Blue

Almost Transparent Blue Author: 村上龍
Publisher: Kodansha America

Representing a sharp and conscious turning away from the introspective trend of postwar Japnese literature, this book polarized critics and public alike and soon attracted international attention as an alternative view of modern Japan.

Ōe and Beyond

Ōe and Beyond Author: Stephen Snyder
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

... Blue is trying to say and would just as soon have not given the prize to the novel. For their comments see “Dai 75 ... Almost Transparent Blue, transl. Nancy Andrews (Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1977), p. 34; originally published as ...

Pipe Dreams

Pipe Dreams Author: Charles Baudelaire
Publisher: Coyote Arts

... Almost Transparent Blue of the 1970s , then the " hip urban novels " such as Tama Janowitz's Slaves of New York ; Brett Easton Ellis's Less Than Zero , and Jay McInerney's Bright Lights , Big City of the 1980s . Cocaine peppers the ...

The Moral Evaluation of Emergency Department Patients

The Moral Evaluation of Emergency Department Patients Author: Marius Wamsiedel
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

... Almost Transparent Blue, Ryu Murakami includes a very similar handling of a patient whose suicide attempt is suspected to be fraudulent: “A suicide, is it? Well, since you're not dead it's just attempted suicide, but the fact is, you ...

The Rough Guide to Tokyo

The Rough Guide to Tokyo Author: Jan Dodd
Publisher: Rough Guides

... Almost Transparent Blue ; Sixty - nine and Coin Locker Babies ( Kodansha ) . Ryu is among the most feted of contemporary Japanese writers . Almost Transparent Blue is a tale of student life mixing reality and fantasy . Sixty - nine is ...

Mechademia 5

Mechademia 5 Author: Frenchy Lunning
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

... Almost Transparent Blue (Kagirinaku tōmei ni chikai burū) in 1977. The novel was widely perceived as vulgar and derivative, even by the committee that awarded the prize. Furthermore, the setting of underground youth culture on the ...

Shock and Naturalization in Contemporary Japanese Literature

Shock and Naturalization in Contemporary Japanese Literature Author: Carl Cassegård
Publisher: Global Oriental

... (Almost Transparent Blue), Tokyo: Kodansha bunko —— (1980) Umi no muko de senso ga hajimaru (War Will Start on the Other Side of the Sea), Tokyo: Kodansha bunko —— (1981) Almost Transparent Blue (translation of Kagirinku tomei ni chikai ...