Oji Suzuki: A Single Match
A Single Match
Buch
- Übersetzung: Jocelyne Allen
- Drawn & Quarterly, 01/2011
- Einband: Gebunden
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781770460096
- Bestellnummer: 7276532
- Umfang: 240 Seiten
- Gewicht: 490 g
- Maße: 223 x 168 mm
- Stärke: 19 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 18.1.2011
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
A new author in D+Q's acclaimed gekiga lineIn this collection of hauntingly elliptical short stories, Oji Suzuki explores memory, relationships, and loss with a loose narrative style, filling each tale with a sense of unfulfilled longing. He plumbs the dissolute depths of human psychology, literally bathing his characters in expansive shadows that paradoxically reveal as much as they obscure. A young man catches a cold after being soaked in the rain and is tended to by his grandmother. He drifts, dreaming of a train trip with an older brother he doesn't have. A traveling salesman comes across a boy lying in the middle of the road and stops to have a cigarette and tell a story that sifts through memories of faces and places before settling back on the boy and pretending to not look at the stars. A young woman walks along the river with her bicycle and a friend who is nothing more than a disembodied head-discussing past times together, memories they have of each other.
Although he touches on many of the same themes as his contemporaries in the field of postwar alternative manga-Yoshihiro Tsuge (L'Homme Sans Talent) and Seiichi Hayashi (Red Coloured Elegy)-Suzuki uses an ever shifting narrative approach and dashes of surrealist humor to distinguish his work from that of his peers.
Oji Suzuki
A Single Match
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