Pablo Guambana từ Metsadzor , Armenia

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11/22/2024

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2019-11-01 03:31

Nhân Danh Tập Chí - Tài Liệu Về Tổ Chức Và Tục Lệ Của Làng Quê Bắc Kì (Song ngữ Pháp-Việt) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Phạm Xuân Lộc

(Original pub date: 1991) This is a collection of "modern" (compiled in 1991) Japanese short stories. Except, many of them aren't even short stories, I discovered, but excerpts from novellas. What the heck was the editor thinking?!? It destroys the integrity of the work if you cut half of it out; there's almost no point in reading it at all. It's like a sampler of various author's writing styles, presented without any possibility of deriving some meaning from the work. Some of it was ok, and most of it was really out there, but the realization that a lot of them weren't actually short stories killed it for me. Murakami's The TV People was a for-real short story, but I was not impressed. It was kind of just random, and I couldn't figure out the point. Maybe it's been too long since I thought critically about serious literature? The freakiest one, about a dominatrix, I actually liked because it seemed to have a few interesting things to say, and drew an intriguing portrait of the narrator. The Yamada Diary, essentially a tale of a boy for whom the line between reality and a video game world starts to blur, actually takes that cliche premise and handles it with subtle deftness. Japanese Entrance Exams for Earnest Young Men was possibly the most accessible and fun story, with its skewering of the whole standardized test game. Bonus hilarity points for this collection go to Momotaro in a Capsule, in which the author doesn't even bother to coyly introduce phallic symbols (for instance, a motorcycle). The main character blatantly calls each phallic symbol exactly what it is, and neatly reverses narrative conventions by framing everything he does explicitly and consciously in terms of maleness and phallic obsessions (rather than having that become a hidden message running through a more normal story). Not that I really liked this tale much, either, but the gimmick was interesting.

Người đọc Pablo Guambana từ Metsadzor , Armenia

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.