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Yumiko Kurahashi
Always find myself returning to Japanese literature--I took a class on post-1970s Japanese feminist lit my senior year and it was the best. I recently read Yumiko Kurahashi’s *The Woman with the Flying Head and Other Stories* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/968405.The_Woman_with_the_Flying_Head_and_Other_Stories (trans. Atsuko Sakaki) and have now picked up *Scorpions* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/231233629-scorpions (trans. Michael Day), the newer Wakefield Press novella release, and found a copy of *The Adventures of Sumiyakist Q* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/968404.The_adventures_of_Sumiyakist_Q (trans. Dennis Keene) through interlibrary loan and my University (some crazy prices online lol I even submitted a request to NYRB https://www.nyrb.com/pages/recommend-book's recommendation box to maybe someday get it reprinted).
I also found out today that Kurahashi also translated Shel Silverstein’s *The Missing Piece* into Japanese, which felt very random but amazing. She also apparently translated Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's *The Little Prince,* of which my younger sister collects various translations.
Has anyone encountered or read Kurahashi? What were your thoughts? I wish she had more works available in English (or that I could read in the original Japanese), but so the story goes for many authors!
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Always find myself returning to Japanese literature--I took a class on post-1970s Japanese feminist lit my senior year and it was the best. I recently read Yumiko Kurahashi’s *The Woman with the Flying Head and Other Stories* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/968405.The_Woman_with_the_Flying_Head_and_Other_Stories (trans. Atsuko Sakaki) and have now picked up *Scorpions* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/231233629-scorpions (trans. Michael Day), the newer Wakefield Press novella release, and found a copy of *The Adventures of Sumiyakist Q* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/968404.The_adventures_of_Sumiyakist_Q (trans. Dennis Keene) through interlibrary loan and my University (some crazy prices online lol I even submitted a request to NYRB https://www.nyrb.com/pages/recommend-book's recommendation box to maybe someday get it reprinted).
I also found out today that Kurahashi also translated Shel Silverstein’s *The Missing Piece* into Japanese, which felt very random but amazing. She also apparently translated Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's *The Little Prince,* of which my younger sister collects various translations.
Has anyone encountered or read Kurahashi? What were your thoughts? I wish she had more works available in English (or that I could read in the original Japanese), but so the story goes for many authors!
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The moustache by Emanuel carré
This is a nice book about a normal guy who shaves his beard to surprise his wife and his side chick.
But when he does, both him and you will start losing your minds
and questioning reality about what is actually going on.
Who is acting and who is not?
Who is on your side, and who is against you?
Is everything against you? Are you crazy? Or are you going to get them? How will you get them?
I recommend reading this short book with the background music of "Saw 1 Hour."
The end is....
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This is a nice book about a normal guy who shaves his beard to surprise his wife and his side chick.
But when he does, both him and you will start losing your minds
and questioning reality about what is actually going on.
Who is acting and who is not?
Who is on your side, and who is against you?
Is everything against you? Are you crazy? Or are you going to get them? How will you get them?
I recommend reading this short book with the background music of "Saw 1 Hour."
The end is....
#entertainment
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Brave New World - different versions?
I was reading my paperback version from Harper Perennial and bought a Kindle version to continue reading it on my phone, as i will be on the move for a while. I immediately spotted a difference where i had left off;
at the very end of chapter 3 the Controller says "Suffer little children," in my paperpack. I since checked out a second kindle edition and also looked for scans online of the book and found out that the sentence is also written as 'Poor little children!' in other releases. This is somewhat discouraging and i'm not sure which one i should keep reading, as i'm not sure what else may have changed. Is it some sort of censorship (which i detest), or an overhaul by Huxley? What happened here?
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I was reading my paperback version from Harper Perennial and bought a Kindle version to continue reading it on my phone, as i will be on the move for a while. I immediately spotted a difference where i had left off;
at the very end of chapter 3 the Controller says "Suffer little children," in my paperpack. I since checked out a second kindle edition and also looked for scans online of the book and found out that the sentence is also written as 'Poor little children!' in other releases. This is somewhat discouraging and i'm not sure which one i should keep reading, as i'm not sure what else may have changed. Is it some sort of censorship (which i detest), or an overhaul by Huxley? What happened here?
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