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Japanese writer and director Ryusuke Hamaguchi has had a remarkable year, releasing two film festival favourites, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy and Drive My Car. The first, a collection of three short episodes , premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize. Hamaguchi and his co-writer Takamasa Oe then won the best.
The first of two collections of Izumi Suzuki’s (1949-1986) work forthcoming from Verso Books,
Terminal Boredom: Stories contains seven pieces appearing for the first time in English translation in some cases more than forty years after their original release. However, from gender politics in a queer matriarchy to media oversaturation and disaffection, the themes of her fiction still thrum with a resistant, brightly grim tension. Passing decades certainly haven’t dulled the the razor’s cut of her punk sensibilities.
Instead of one translator handling the entire collection, the stories are split between six: Daniel Joseph, David Boyd, Sam Bett, Helen O’Horan, Aiko Masubuchi, and Polly Barton. Across their individual stylistic approaches to Suzuki’s prose, bedrock features come through: crispness edging toward a cruel gloss in the dialogue, emotional saturation (or desaturation) as both literal experience and speculative metaphor, references to American films and Jazz music
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