Hirabayashi Taiko Literary Award
夢かたり (中公文庫)
Dreamtelling is a linked fictional work by Meisei Goto that reconstructs childhood in colonial Korea and repatriation through a dreamlike narrative. Personal memory and colonial experience intersect, reopening the boundary between self and other.
Work Information
A major Meisei Goto work that follows colonial memory through the movement between dream and narration.
Published by Chuokoronsha as a hardcover in 1976 and as a Chuko paperback in 1978. NDL Search and HMV confirm ISBN-13 9784122005532 and ISBN-10 4122005531 for the paperback; the paper-book ASIN is therefore filled with the ISBN-10 value.
Review Summaries
-
The work is valued for refusing to reduce colonial experience to a simple perpetrator-victim scheme, instead presenting a mixed space through a child's viewpoint. Its unstable narration gives the book complex depth.
Book Information
- Publisher
- 中央公論新社
- Published
- 1978-07-01
- Pages
- 379 pages
- Language
- 日本語
- ISBN-13
- 9784122005532
- ISBN-10
- 4122005531
- Price
- 900 JPY
- Category
- 本/文学・評論
Amazon.co.jp: 夢かたり (中公文庫) : 後藤明生: 本