The Naked Eye (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
256
Utgivningsdatum
2009-05-15
Förlag
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Översättare
Susan Bernofsky
Dimensioner
173 x 124 x 15 mm
Vikt
204 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780811217392

The Naked Eye

av Yoko Tawada
Häftad,  Engelska, 2009-05-15
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A precocious Vietnamese high school student known as the pupil with the iron blousein Ho Chi Minh City is invited to an International Youth Conference in East Berlin. But, in East Berlin, as she is preparing to present her paper in Russian on Vietnam as a Victim of American Imperialism, she is abruptly kidnapped and taken to a small town in West Germany. After a strange spell of domestic-sexual boredom with her lover-abductorand though the Berlin Wall was said to be more difficult to break through than the Great Wall of China she escapes on a train to Moscow . . . but mistakenly arrives in Paris. Alone, broke, and in a completely foreign land, Anh (her false name) loses herself in the films of Catherine Deneuve as her real adventures begin. Dreamy, meditative, and filled with the gritty everyday perils of a person living somewhere without papers (at one point Anh is subjected to some vampire-like skin experiments), The Naked Eye is a novel that is as surprising as it is delightfuleach of the thirteen chapters titled after and framed by one of Deneuves films. As far as I was concerned, the narrator says while watching Deneuve on the screen, the only woman in the world was you, and so I did not exist. By the time 1989 comes along and the Iron Curtain falls, story and viewer have morphed into the dislocating beauty of both dancer and dance.
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"A distinguished contribution to the unique paranoid style of the new European novel." -- Anis Shivani - The Brooklyn Rail "Her finest stories dramatize the fate of the individual in a mobilized world." -- Benjamin Lytal, - The New York Sun "Tawadas chilling evocations of disorientation are the peers of Paul Bowles most chilling stories." -- Booklist "Honorable Mention: one of the 10 Best Books of 2009." -- Anis Shivani - The Huffington Post

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Born in Tokyo in 1960, Yoko Tawada writes in both Japanese and German: she has received the Akutagawa, Kleist, Lessing, Noma, Adelbert von Chamisso, and Tanizaki prizes, as well as the Goethe Medal. Her novel The Emissary won the National Book Award. Rivka Galchen in the New York Times Magazine hailed her work as magnificently strange. Susan Bernofsky is the acclaimed translator of Hermann Hesse, Robert Walser, and Jenny Erpenbeck, and the recipient of many awards, including the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize and the Hermann Hesse Translation Prize. She teaches literary translation at Columbia University and lives in New York.

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