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Toshiyuki Horie

Autore di The Bear and the Paving Stone

17+ opere 81 membri 4 recensioni

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Comprende i nomi: 堀江 敏幸, Toshiyuki Horie

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I like the writing, and some sections of each story were great to read, but I found the endings of all three stories too abrupt. The whole Emile Littre biography in the title story went on too long for me too.
 
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tronella | 2 altre recensioni | Jun 22, 2019 |
3.5 stars, rounded up.

A small collection of three stories. These stories are so quiet, it's easy to think they're insubstantial. No drama and no plot; these are like whispers, or the sound of waves as they recede from the shore. It was a bit like entering a dream world—a word or an action leads to memories, or to the imagination taking flight. Loss, nostalgia, and a melancholic, bittersweet feeling pervade throughout, but I still felt strangely nourished when I finished.

The only that lowered my star rating is the fact that these pieces flirted with the surreal and the strange, but that aspect of it never really fully bloomed. I would have liked these to be a little stranger.… (altro)
 
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subabat | 2 altre recensioni | Mar 19, 2018 |
思わせぶりなタイトルに惹かれて読み始めたが、読み進めても何も得られないような気がして、途中で止めてしまった。描写は面白いし、上手いとも思う。話の筋が入り組んで、しばしば飛ぶのも悪くはない。ただ、どうしてもわざわざ凝った演出にしているような、中身は大したものではないのに外面だけ大げさに見せているような、そんな気がしてしまう。小説は物語にとって必然であったほうがいいように思う。この話はこう語られるから、こう描かれるから意味がある、という必然があればわりとどんな手法でも違和感はないのではないか。あるいは、読み手である私に、この本を理解するために必要ななにかが欠けていたのかもしれない。… (altro)
 
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Critterbee | 2 altre recensioni | Apr 16, 2018 |

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17
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8
Utenti
81
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#222,754
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½ 3.5
Recensioni
4
ISBN
22
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