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まちがいの狂言

Tsuruya Nanboku Drama Award

まちがいの狂言

Kinji Obata

This work presents its subject through a compact, literary form, emphasizing memory, emotion, and the pressure of lived experience. It can be read as a piece that connects personal feeling with a wider social and cultural landscape.

dramawar

Work Information

A work that follows intimate emotions as they meet a larger world.

This work presents its subject through a compact, literary form, emphasizing memory, emotion, and the pressure of lived experience. It can be read as a piece that connects personal feeling with a wider social and cultural landscape.

Review Summaries

  • Readers respond to the work's distinctive structure and treatment of its subject, noting the strong aftertaste it leaves. Its dense style and premise can also make it demanding for some readers.

Book Information

Publisher
白水社
Published
2003-11-01
Pages
171 pages
Language
日本語
ISBN-13
9784560035801
ISBN-10
4560035806
Price
1980 JPY
Category
本/文学・評論/戯曲・シナリオ/日本

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