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迫降的流星
打破真實與虛構的藩籬
歡迎進入小川洋子的迷離幻境
這是真實，還是虛構？
歡迎進入小川洋子深邃迷人的文學幻境。
以實際人物或真實事件為小說原型，將其記憶、觸感、生命歷程化作故事結晶，拼貼成閃爍絕美的極致短篇。當真實和虛構交織成另一個平行宇宙，奇特迷離、無與倫比的魔幻故事就此延展開來。
完美地掌握寂靜人生中突如其來預感的變奏曲，將讀者帶往遙遠的現實和虛幻間。
失明的祖父，在家裡來回走動，將所有能想到的點與點之間相連，測量其間的距離，並要我記錄下來。腳步聲和步數的呢喃融為一體，如同音樂一樣傳進耳裡。那彷彿是從沒有盡頭的遠方傳來的、全心全意的聲音－─〈測量〉
睡不著的夜晚，我經常抄寫您的小說。以小刀仔細削尖的鉛筆、一字一字、把印刷在書本上的文字化作手寫字。您以鉛筆在草稿用、手掌大小的紙片上寫下的文字，最終變成活字而成為書本。我想倒轉時間的進行。只要這麼做，雖然只有一點點，我便能沉浸於身處在您身旁的錯覺。
我之所以抄寫小說，絕非想要假裝成作家，也不是想要安慰沒有才能的自己。是為了不讓文字與文字、碎片與碎片之間的連結，被某個粗暴的人打散，而用自己的手將它們再次牢牢綁好。──〈致散步同盟會長的信〉
歡迎進入小川洋子的迷離幻境
這是真實，還是虛構？
歡迎進入小川洋子深邃迷人的文學幻境。
以實際人物或真實事件為小說原型，將其記憶、觸感、生命歷程化作故事結晶，拼貼成閃爍絕美的極致短篇。當真實和虛構交織成另一個平行宇宙，奇特迷離、無與倫比的魔幻故事就此延展開來。
完美地掌握寂靜人生中突如其來預感的變奏曲，將讀者帶往遙遠的現實和虛幻間。
失明的祖父，在家裡來回走動，將所有能想到的點與點之間相連，測量其間的距離，並要我記錄下來。腳步聲和步數的呢喃融為一體，如同音樂一樣傳進耳裡。那彷彿是從沒有盡頭的遠方傳來的、全心全意的聲音－─〈測量〉
睡不著的夜晚，我經常抄寫您的小說。以小刀仔細削尖的鉛筆、一字一字、把印刷在書本上的文字化作手寫字。您以鉛筆在草稿用、手掌大小的紙片上寫下的文字，最終變成活字而成為書本。我想倒轉時間的進行。只要這麼做，雖然只有一點點，我便能沉浸於身處在您身旁的錯覺。
我之所以抄寫小說，絕非想要假裝成作家，也不是想要安慰沒有才能的自己。是為了不讓文字與文字、碎片與碎片之間的連結，被某個粗暴的人打散，而用自己的手將它們再次牢牢綁好。──〈致散步同盟會長的信〉
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First published January 1, 2017
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About the author
Yōko Ogawa
138 books5,469 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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November 28, 2018
Woohoo I'm so honored to be the first one to rate and review this book here!
Loved Yoko Ogawa's new short story collection. It is a good mixture of the real and the imaginary, containing 10 stories based on real people and facts. It's amazing how she twisted them and created her own beautiful yet a bit eerie world out of them. There is always a sense of death drifting in Ogawa-san's stories, and it doesn't seem like a means to draw the reader's tears or to frighten them. She treats it with such tenderness, which I liked very much.
My favourite quote by her, which I found in an article on this book: '"What are you?" Not many can answer this question. In our society, we are identified with our names and status. Novels are there to express human nature that those abstract facts cannot.' (Translated by me, so sorry for any mistakes.)
How so true!
Loved Yoko Ogawa's new short story collection. It is a good mixture of the real and the imaginary, containing 10 stories based on real people and facts. It's amazing how she twisted them and created her own beautiful yet a bit eerie world out of them. There is always a sense of death drifting in Ogawa-san's stories, and it doesn't seem like a means to draw the reader's tears or to frighten them. She treats it with such tenderness, which I liked very much.
My favourite quote by her, which I found in an article on this book: '"What are you?" Not many can answer this question. In our society, we are identified with our names and status. Novels are there to express human nature that those abstract facts cannot.' (Translated by me, so sorry for any mistakes.)
How so true!
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