A reflective critical work on cities, architecture, and memory.

A reflective critical work on cities, architecture, and memory.

This collection of criticism by Kōjin Karatani examines Sakaguchi Ango and Kenji Nakagami. Reconsidering Ango's Nihon Bunka Shikan, it traces Karatani's long association with Nakagami and his work, exploring the questions of homeland and otherness that run through both writers.

Through criticism of Ango and Nakagami, the book reconsiders homeland and otherness in literature.