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Chargement... Me Against the Worldpar Kazufumi Shiraishi
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. An interesting version of the essay-as-novel; it's a work of fairly generic literary existentialism (Japanese style), juvenile, moderately interesting, but humorless (the key to the great works of LitEx being that they're funny: Bernhard, Kafka, even Dostoevsky). And then, in the last few pages, Shiraishi somehow leads us into something interesting and affecting and moral and touching. I have no idea how he pulls it off. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
A jaded journalist inherits an abandoned manuscript penned by an old acquaintance who has recently passed away. The writing--a collection of ruminations on the nature of existence by a fifty-three-year old businessman who, as far as the journalist remembers, was a kind and gentle soul--is nothing short of shocking. In it, this apparent everyman--whom we know only as Mr. K--writes that he has a son, daughter, and wife, but has no love for them. He claims that humans are like cancer cells, destroying Mother Earth with their unrestrained propagation. He looks at our mortal destiny with an unflinching honesty and turns to psychic mediums for clues to the afterlife, wondering what immortality--if it were possible--would mean for our spiritual well-being. Me Against the World takes the reader down the rabbit hole of the raging mind of this man, who only rejects the world in order to save it from itself. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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