Almost Transparent Blue
Publisher: Kodansha Amer Incorporated
This controversial novel touched the raw nerves of the Japanese and became a million seller within six months of publication.
This controversial novel touched the raw nerves of the Japanese and became a million seller within six months of publication.
This controversial novel touched the raw nerves of the Japanese and became a million seller within six months of publication.
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.
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... (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 ...