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Bun e Fun
Fun è uno scrittore squattrinato i cui libri non hanno mai venduto molto. Tuttavia, una sera il suo editore gli comunica che il suo ultimo romanzo, Bun, che ha come protagonista l'omonimo personaggio, un ladro quadridimensionale pressoché onnipotente, sta vendendo decine di migliaia di copie. Stupito ma anche irritato da questo improvviso successo, si mette a rileggere le pagine del suo romanzo, quand'ecco che il protagonista Bun si materializza davanti a lui. Comincia così la storia di un ladro in grado di superare il tempo e lo spazio, di apparire dovunque in qualsiasi momento, per cui nulla è impossibile, che sfrutterà le sue abilità per i furti più improbabili. Inizialmente Bun sembra solo divertirsi, ma quando inizia a rubare cose astratte come ricordi, creatività, spocchia, decoro, forse vuole anche farci riflettere su cosa può essere ciò che abbiamo di più importante e che non vogliamo che ci venga assolutamente tolto. Riuscirà Fun a far ragionare la sua creatura? Oppure questa verrà prima arrestata dall'abile ispettore Kusaki Sansuke? La situazione si aggraverà quando i Bun cominceranno a uscire anche dalle altre copie del romanzo in circolo nel mondo.
195 pages, Paperback
Published June 14, 2024
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Hisashi Inoue
64 books14 followersInoue Hisashi (井上 ひさし Inoue Hisashi?, 16 November 1934 – 9 April 2010) was a leading Japanese playwright and writer of comic fiction. From 1961-1986, he used the pen name of Uchiyama Hisashi.
Inoue was born in what is now part of Kawanishi in Yamagata Prefecture, where his father was a pharmacist, who was also involved in an agrarian reform movement and who managed a local drama troupe. For reasons which are not clear, he was listed in the family registry as legitimate. He lost his father when he was 5 years old and after suffering from child abuse at the hands of his stepfather, he was subsequently sent off to a Lasallian orphanage in Sendai, where he received a Christian baptism. He graduated from Sophia University’s Facility of Letters, continuing on to graduate school in French literature, with a two-year hiatus in between to raise more money for his studies by working at a sanatorium in Kamaishi, Iwate.
Even before graduation, Inoue began is literary career as a stage manager and by writing scripts for the Furasu-za striptease theater in Asakusa, Tokyo. It was common to have a one-hour vaudeville performance before and between strip acts, and many famous actors, including Kiyoshi Atsumi started their careers in such an environment. He wrote a semi-fictional account of his life during this period in Mokkinpotto Shi no Atoshimatsu ("The Fortunes of Father Mockinpott"). After graduation, he obtained a position as a script writer for a puppet drama Hyokkori Hyotanjima, which aired from April 1964 for a five year period.
After an initial career in radio, he wrote his first stage play Nihonjin no Heso in 1969 for Theatre Echo. He first gained literary recognition for his satirical comic plays in the tradition of the Edo period gesaku genre. Inoue has won a very large number of literary awards in the course of his career, including the 67th Naoki Prize in 1972 for his novel Tegusari Shinju ("Handcuffed Double Suicide"). He followed on this success in 1981 with Kirikirijin ("The People of Kirikiri"), which was awarded both the Yomiuri Literary Prize and the 2nd Japan Science Fiction Award.
In 1984, Inoue established his own theatre troupe, called Komatsuza, to perform his own plays. These include biographical works on Meiji period writers Ishikawa Takuboku and Higuchi Ichiyō, whom he had long admired. In 1988, he completed a comic trilogy: Kirameku seiza, Yami ni saku hana, Yuki ya kon kon, depicting the lives of ordinary people in the Shōwa period. Despite his activity with the theatre, Inoue continued to write novels, winning the 1982 Seiun Award for Best Novel for Kirikirijin, the Yoshikawa Eiji Literary Prize for Treasury of Disloyal Retainers in 1986, the 27th Tanizaki Prize for Shanghai Moon in 1991, and the Kikuchi Kan Literary Award for Tokyo Seven Roses in 1999. In 1984, the Writer's Block Library was opened in Kawanishi, Yamagata, thanks to Inoue's donation of his 100,000 volume book collection. Inoue was awarded the Asahi Prize in the year 2000 and the Yomiuri Literary Prize again in 2010. In 2004, he was designated a Person of Cultural Merit by the Japanese government.
Chichi to kuraseba, has been translated into the English language by Roger Pulvers under the title The Face of Jizo.
(from Wikipedia)
Inoue was born in what is now part of Kawanishi in Yamagata Prefecture, where his father was a pharmacist, who was also involved in an agrarian reform movement and who managed a local drama troupe. For reasons which are not clear, he was listed in the family registry as legitimate. He lost his father when he was 5 years old and after suffering from child abuse at the hands of his stepfather, he was subsequently sent off to a Lasallian orphanage in Sendai, where he received a Christian baptism. He graduated from Sophia University’s Facility of Letters, continuing on to graduate school in French literature, with a two-year hiatus in between to raise more money for his studies by working at a sanatorium in Kamaishi, Iwate.
Even before graduation, Inoue began is literary career as a stage manager and by writing scripts for the Furasu-za striptease theater in Asakusa, Tokyo. It was common to have a one-hour vaudeville performance before and between strip acts, and many famous actors, including Kiyoshi Atsumi started their careers in such an environment. He wrote a semi-fictional account of his life during this period in Mokkinpotto Shi no Atoshimatsu ("The Fortunes of Father Mockinpott"). After graduation, he obtained a position as a script writer for a puppet drama Hyokkori Hyotanjima, which aired from April 1964 for a five year period.
After an initial career in radio, he wrote his first stage play Nihonjin no Heso in 1969 for Theatre Echo. He first gained literary recognition for his satirical comic plays in the tradition of the Edo period gesaku genre. Inoue has won a very large number of literary awards in the course of his career, including the 67th Naoki Prize in 1972 for his novel Tegusari Shinju ("Handcuffed Double Suicide"). He followed on this success in 1981 with Kirikirijin ("The People of Kirikiri"), which was awarded both the Yomiuri Literary Prize and the 2nd Japan Science Fiction Award.
In 1984, Inoue established his own theatre troupe, called Komatsuza, to perform his own plays. These include biographical works on Meiji period writers Ishikawa Takuboku and Higuchi Ichiyō, whom he had long admired. In 1988, he completed a comic trilogy: Kirameku seiza, Yami ni saku hana, Yuki ya kon kon, depicting the lives of ordinary people in the Shōwa period. Despite his activity with the theatre, Inoue continued to write novels, winning the 1982 Seiun Award for Best Novel for Kirikirijin, the Yoshikawa Eiji Literary Prize for Treasury of Disloyal Retainers in 1986, the 27th Tanizaki Prize for Shanghai Moon in 1991, and the Kikuchi Kan Literary Award for Tokyo Seven Roses in 1999. In 1984, the Writer's Block Library was opened in Kawanishi, Yamagata, thanks to Inoue's donation of his 100,000 volume book collection. Inoue was awarded the Asahi Prize in the year 2000 and the Yomiuri Literary Prize again in 2010. In 2004, he was designated a Person of Cultural Merit by the Japanese government.
Chichi to kuraseba, has been translated into the English language by Roger Pulvers under the title The Face of Jizo.
(from Wikipedia)
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🎡 Gr0ttesco ed irriverente, Bun e Fun si divide tra ironia e riflessione.
Fun é uno scrittore squattrinato, finché il suo editore non gli comunica il successo del suo ultimo libro: Bun. L’autore si ritroverà presto a doversi scontrare con la sua stessa opera; Bun, creatura di fantasia materializzata nel mondo reale, é un ladro che trascende tempo e spazio: non solo è in grado di rubare oggetti tangibili, ma anche cose astratte come ricordi, desideri e creatività.
La situazione peggiora, quando i Bun cominciano ad uscire anche dalle copie del romanzo sparse in tutto il mondo, seminando il caos.
L’autore é un esponente del parody boom, corrente che sperimenta nuove esplorazioni della parola e che difende il ruolo della parodia nella letteratura.
Nel romanzo troviamo una comicità basata sul nonsense, giochi di parole, una satira frizzante e un tono da fiaba che rompe la quarta parete rivolgendosi direttamente al lettore (con tanto di disegni).
Bun e Fun spinge a riflettere sulle priorità di vita e su quali siano le cose che non vogliamo assolutamente che ci vengano tolte. Inoltre, attraverso l’espediente del divertimento, l’autore critica la politica, la società e le sue contraddizioni e gli abusi di potere dell’Uomo.
🎡 Gr0ttesco ed irriverente, Bun e Fun si divide tra ironia e riflessione.
Fun é uno scrittore squattrinato, finché il suo editore non gli comunica il successo del suo ultimo libro: Bun. L’autore si ritroverà presto a doversi scontrare con la sua stessa opera; Bun, creatura di fantasia materializzata nel mondo reale, é un ladro che trascende tempo e spazio: non solo è in grado di rubare oggetti tangibili, ma anche cose astratte come ricordi, desideri e creatività.
La situazione peggiora, quando i Bun cominciano ad uscire anche dalle copie del romanzo sparse in tutto il mondo, seminando il caos.
L’autore é un esponente del parody boom, corrente che sperimenta nuove esplorazioni della parola e che difende il ruolo della parodia nella letteratura.
Nel romanzo troviamo una comicità basata sul nonsense, giochi di parole, una satira frizzante e un tono da fiaba che rompe la quarta parete rivolgendosi direttamente al lettore (con tanto di disegni).
Bun e Fun spinge a riflettere sulle priorità di vita e su quali siano le cose che non vogliamo assolutamente che ci vengano tolte. Inoltre, attraverso l’espediente del divertimento, l’autore critica la politica, la società e le sue contraddizioni e gli abusi di potere dell’Uomo.
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