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最果てアーケード 分冊版 #2
最果てアーケード（２）
芥川賞作家の小川洋子が初めて書き下ろした漫画原作に、新人ばなれした表現力を持つ新鋭・有永イネが挑む、話題の作品第2巻にして完結巻！ 火事で父を失ってから、一風変わった店主たちとともに密やかなアーケードを見守ってきた大家の「わたし」。これまで“死の縁”に立たされたお客に寄り添ってきた。が、彼女の身にもある異変が。なぜ、彼女はこのアーケードを動こうとしないのか。「わたし」が抱える重大な秘密とは？
168 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 13, 2012
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About the author
Yōko Ogawa
140 books5,401 followersYōko Ogawa (小川 洋子) was born in Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, graduated from Waseda University, and lives in Ashiya. Since 1988, she has published more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction. Her novel The Professor and his Beloved Equation has been made into a movie. In 2006 she co-authored „An Introduction to the World's Most Elegant Mathematics“ with Masahiko Fujiwara, a mathematician, as a dialogue on the extraordinary beauty of numbers.
A film in French, "L'Annulaire“ (The Ringfinger), directed by Diane Bertrand, starring Olga Kurylenko and Marc Barbé, was released in France in June 2005 and subsequently made the rounds of the international film festivals; the film, some of which is filmed in the Hamburg docks, is based in part on Ogawa's "Kusuriyubi no hyōhon“ (薬指の標本), translated into French as "L'Annulaire“ (by Rose-Marie Makino-Fayolle who has translated numerous works by Ogawa, as well as works by Akira Yoshimura and by Ranpo Edogawa, into French).
Kenzaburō Ōe has said, 'Yōko Ogawa is able to give expression to the most subtle workings of human psychology in prose that is gentle yet penetrating.' The subtlety in part lies in the fact that Ogawa's characters often seem not to know why they are doing what they are doing. She works by accumulation of detail, a technique that is perhaps more successful in her shorter works; the slow pace of development in the longer works requires something of a deus ex machina to end them. The reader is presented with an acute description of what the protagonists, mostly but not always female, observe and feel and their somewhat alienated self-observations, some of which is a reflection of Japanese society and especially women's roles within in it. The tone of her works varies, across the works and sometimes within the longer works, from the surreal, through the grotesque and the--sometimes grotesquely--humorous, to the psychologically ambiguous and even disturbing.
A film in French, "L'Annulaire“ (The Ringfinger), directed by Diane Bertrand, starring Olga Kurylenko and Marc Barbé, was released in France in June 2005 and subsequently made the rounds of the international film festivals; the film, some of which is filmed in the Hamburg docks, is based in part on Ogawa's "Kusuriyubi no hyōhon“ (薬指の標本), translated into French as "L'Annulaire“ (by Rose-Marie Makino-Fayolle who has translated numerous works by Ogawa, as well as works by Akira Yoshimura and by Ranpo Edogawa, into French).
Kenzaburō Ōe has said, 'Yōko Ogawa is able to give expression to the most subtle workings of human psychology in prose that is gentle yet penetrating.' The subtlety in part lies in the fact that Ogawa's characters often seem not to know why they are doing what they are doing. She works by accumulation of detail, a technique that is perhaps more successful in her shorter works; the slow pace of development in the longer works requires something of a deus ex machina to end them. The reader is presented with an acute description of what the protagonists, mostly but not always female, observe and feel and their somewhat alienated self-observations, some of which is a reflection of Japanese society and especially women's roles within in it. The tone of her works varies, across the works and sometimes within the longer works, from the surreal, through the grotesque and the--sometimes grotesquely--humorous, to the psychologically ambiguous and even disturbing.
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January 18, 2022
2巻目も残念ながら微妙。
原作の主人公はもっと周囲を静かに静観しているイメージなのに、漫画だと元気いっぱいで鬱陶しい。
それと、原作では主人公がと匂わせてるだけだが、漫画でははっきりそう描かれてる。（私は原作を読みながら、↑という結論には至らなかったので、違和感）
原作の「最果てアーケード」の事を教えてくれた友人に、漫画の事を話たら「主人公のイメージが違う」と私と同じ意見だった。（彼女も漫画の事を知らなかったらしい。）
読んでよかったとは思うし、原作の違う解釈を見られてよかったけど、強い違和感をずーっと感じ続けて読み続けたので、疲れた。楽しい読書ではなかった。
原作の主人公はもっと周囲を静かに静観しているイメージなのに、漫画だと元気いっぱいで鬱陶しい。
それと、原作では主人公がと匂わせてるだけだが、漫画でははっきりそう描かれてる。（私は原作を読みながら、↑という結論には至らなかったので、違和感）
原作の「最果てアーケード」の事を教えてくれた友人に、漫画の事を話たら「主人公のイメージが違う」と私と同じ意見だった。（彼女も漫画の事を知らなかったらしい。）
読んでよかったとは思うし、原作の違う解釈を見られてよかったけど、強い違和感をずーっと感じ続けて読み続けたので、疲れた。楽しい読書ではなかった。
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