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Lädt ... I Am a Japanese Writervon Dany Laferrière
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. > Je suis un écrivain japonais by Dany Laferrière Se reporter au compte rendu de Florence RAMOND JURNEY In: The French Review, Vol. 83, No. 1 (Oct., 2009), pp. 197-198 An odd, odd book, though I devoured it in a a day. Questions of identity run through the whole novel. The narrator titles his new, to-be-written book, I Am a Japanese Writer. He doesn't live in Japan, and he is not of Japanese descent, though he is fascinated both by Basho and by a beautiful Japanese singer whose identity is equally in flux. But he calls himself a Japanese writer? I don't understand all the attention paid to a writer's origins. Because, for me, Mishima was my neighbor. Very naturally, I repatriated the writers I read at the time. All of them: Flaubert, Goethe, Whitman, Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, Cervantes, Kipling, Senghor, Cesaire, Roumain, Amado, Diderot -- they all lived in my village. Otherwise, what were they doing in my room? Years later, when I became a writer and people asked me, "Are you a Haitian writer, a Caribbean writer or a French-language writer?" I answered without hesitation: I take on my reader's nationality. Which means that when a Japanese person reads me, I immediately become a Japanese writer. Of course, it's not that simple -- once an identity is out in the world, other people have a stake in affirming or refusing it. Laferriere also toys with the line between novel and autobiography in his choice of a narrator who shares his profession, his birth country and his current city, and seduces the reader into wondering whether parts of the story are grounded in truth or if it was made up whole cloth, adding another layer to the question of identity. Unfortunately, Zeige 4 von 4 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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HTML:A devilishly intelligent new novel by the internationally bestselling author and Prix Médicis winner, Dany Lafferière. A black writer from Montreal has found the perfect title for his next book I Am a Japanese Writer. His publisher gives him an advance on the strength of the title alone. The problem is, he can't seem to write a word of it. He can scarcely summon the energy to put pen to paper, and so he nurses his writer's block by taking long baths, re-reading the works of Japanese poet Basho and engaging in amorous intrigues with rising pop star Midori and her entourage of vampire girls. Part postmodern fantasy, part Kafkaesque nightmare and part travelogue to the inner reaches of the self, I Am a Japanese Writer calls into question everything we think we know about what ?? and who ?? makes a Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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