Terminal boredom : stories / Izumi Suzuki, translated by Polly Barton, Sam Bett, David Boyd, Daniel Joseph, Aiko Masubuchi, and Helen O'Horan.
Language: English Original language: Japanese Publication details: London ; New York : Verso, 2021.Description: 218 pages ; 20 cmISBN:- 9781788739887
- Short stories. Selections. English
- 895.63/5 23
- PL861.U9265 A2 2021
Contents:
Summary: "Born from the obsessive and highly idiosyncratic mind of a cult figure of the Japanese underground, these stories borrow themes and subjects familiar to readers of Philip K. Dick and fuses them with a conflicted, tortured, and intense imagination"--
Women and women -- You may dream -- Night picnic -- That old seaside club -- Smoke gets in your eyes -- Forgotten -- Terminal boredom.
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"These stories here appeared in Japanese in The Covenant..., a larger collection of Izumi Suzuki's short stories ℗♭ Bunyusha 2014"--Title page verso.
Women and women -- You may dream -- Night picnic -- That old seaside club -- Smoke gets in your eyes -- Forgotten -- Terminal boredom.
"Born from the obsessive and highly idiosyncratic mind of a cult figure of the Japanese underground, these stories borrow themes and subjects familiar to readers of Philip K. Dick and fuses them with a conflicted, tortured, and intense imagination"--
Translated from the Japanese.