道化師の蝶 is a 小説 by 円城塔. An experimental novel in which language, translation, travel, and memory nest inside one another. It unsettles the boundary between reading and writing and treats the process by which narrative is generated.

道化師の蝶 builds its world around experimental fiction.

共喰い is a 小説 by 田中慎弥. A novel set in a riverside town, densely portraying father and son, sex and violence, and the inescapability of blood ties. Together with its companion story, it looks at dark cycles of life.

共喰い builds its world around family.