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古井由吉作品 5

Japan Literary Grand Award

古井由吉作品 5

Yoshikichi Furui

Sumika is a novel in which Yoshikichi Furui layers dwelling, body, memory, and relations between men and women to portray unease and instability hidden inside everyday life. The dwelling that should be a place of living emerges as a space where intimacy and solitude, relief and madness, intersect.

dwellingbodymemorygender relationsthe introspective generation

Work Information

A place of living becomes not only a refuge but an unsettling space where body and memory stir.

A full-length novel first published by Heibonsha and later read in editions such as Hijiri / Sumika. In Furui's dense prose, houses, rooms, bodily sensations, and fragments of memory are linked as relationships quietly tilt out of balance. Rather than relying on large events, the novel follows disquiet seeping into familiar spaces, leaving the feeling that everyday life itself has become strange.

Review Summaries

  • Critical readings emphasize body, gender, modernity, and madness, treating the novel as a work about living space while stressing its refusal to simply affirm domestic stability.

Book Information

Publisher
河出書房新社
Published
1983-01-01
Pages
405 pages
Language
日本語
ISBN-13
9784309605456
ISBN-10
4309605451
Category
本/文学・評論

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