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"Deep Sleep" by Banana Yoshimoto

After my pleasant experience with Murakami has piqued my curiosity with Japanese literature and I have begun to explore a bit while I recognize that a certain shyness.
is why I have opted for Banana Yoshimoto, an author also very accessible to Western eyes and, in some cases, it has been defined as a woman Murakami (but Murakami is best known for his novels and stories by Yoshimoto) .
Although announced with "Kitchen" I preferred to start with "Deep Sleep", an anthology of short stories that are read in one breath and I have been very dissappointed.
Indeed, similarities with Murakami are notable both for the style simple and easy to read but with a somewhat reminiscent it only as sadness and depth of their stories. However, it may seem difficult, the Japanese get more sensitive than her male colleague, or at least, has left me that feeling.
"Deep Sleep" contains three stories: the book's title, "The night commuters" and "an experience." The first and last are fantastic and the realistic environment but these labels are not very useful because in this case, what matters is not that gender uses Yoshimoto but it is exactly what we are telling.
And in all three cases we speak of loneliness and death, loss and sadness involved and how to address the weakness inherent to being human. However, as with Murakami not tragic or pessimistic stories rather leave an aftertaste of tenderness and humanity which, though apparently its protagonists are alone, there really is a warm human brotherhood around him that allows them to get ahead how hard it is their experience.
"night travelers" tells how to deal with the death of a loved one (brother of one of the characters and boyfriend of another), and, again, although his approach is realistic, it is true that the story is permeated by an aura of unreality about it to fantasy, if not in substance if the tone.
"Deep Sleep" is the original, while recognizing that Yoshimoto is lavished in terms of innovation, is also the painful loss of a loved one but fascinated by seemingly minor details that, eventually, end up becoming the real axis of history, that deep sleep that first title late practiced as a peculiar profession and then affects their friends no longer as powerful as an illuminating metaphor for how to deal with the crossroads of our lives and friendship as can help beyond death.
"An Experience" is the most fantastic of the three and the most terrifying story of alcoholism and sleep but in which stands a seance really disturbing and puts Yoshimoto as a business devoted to more traditional sources of Terror.
In short, an enjoyable read that I highly recommend and encourage you to read on this author. And that despite the nickname you have chosen that, at least in English, it does sound like a joke ... both

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José Saramago (1922-2010)

the death of a writer, especially a great writer, is frequent talk of many things connected with him but not literature. Reactions, his life, the details of his demise ... all this is scanned in live by the pen of the day but a comment rested from the work he leaves behind, it is often conspicuous by their absence. José Saramago
would not be an exception. Since its Iberianism, its relationship with Portugal, his country, to his home in Lanzarote, the Nobel Prize, the affection of his readers (of which I attest, one of the oldest entries are answered in this blog was my negative comment on "Intermittently death), her marriage to a English Communist militancy, his childhood poverty and need, its late addition to the literature, the suddenness of his death (despite his age) or the unfortunate statement from the Holy See (What happened to the subtlety of Vatican diplomacy! another myth crumbles .) In short, everything that has been said and a lot of press but, again, their books, Justito and little else. As much a bit of emphasis on the rarity of its success being an author who has a very special style, baroque, poetic and somewhat avant-garde. Unfortunately
do not feel qualified to make that effort I've been missing elsewhere, and I will not do an elaborate critique of the work of Saramago. But I would like to remember one thing: Portuguese was an author who carefully cultivated, intensity and repeated the fantasy genre. Something that, in my humble opinion, has not been reported enough. Saramago practiced so diffuse that has been called magical realism, but also the purest Fantastic literary, political fiction, the biblical and even something like science fiction.
In that sense it is, probably, and died after Ballard and Lem, the closest thing to an author of our tastes that the Nobel Academy may come to recognize. Therefore, it is worth remembering, and not try to be exhaustive, titles like the aforementioned "death Intermittently" but also, "The Stone Raft," "The Gospel According to Jesus," "Blindness" (perhaps his most recognized), "The Cave", "The man doubled," Essay on the lucidity " "Cain" or some of their stories.
The fact that critics and the public would accept without question these titles are probably the best example of how far the normalization of fantastic literature, especially science fiction, has become, and despite the redundancy in normal . While probably protest this input (which I'm pretty regular) start to stop making sense. Currently writing about a world where everyone becomes blind but a few and how that Revelation reflects our human condition is no longer science fiction, but a social critique worthy of a Nobel. Ah, if Wyndham lift his head!

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course we did not win for frights and absurd. Let me explain. I think I mentioned once that work in a secondary school as a teacher. A place where reading is something remote, distant and irrelevant. As one friend now deceased, and to summarize a bit, many profs as missionaries we are Zulus.
My fellow struggling language arts daily with this panda irreducible to the delights of reading, and try to lure them in a thousand and one way to deceive, usually unsuccessful.
time ago that no one suggests that reading the classics (at least in the ESO), perhaps not entirely bad idea. The trouble is that, in turn, dominates the dictatorship of the Youth Literature "values", so dear to publishers and ministries and so poor in performance.
Some of the works to be read (so to speak) the kids in my school I have reviewed in this blog, fantasy-themed obviously, that some have been, though they are far from the majority. And that is something that, frankly, I understand ever, why is there a type of reader, and I believe that most common in adolescence than in maturity, passion for the weird, the weird, the adventurer, the terrifying and even bizarre. All this land of fantasy and that, surely, could serve as bait for that coveted El Dorado, the habit of reading, is at last found at these ages. And if not, let's look at JK Rowling and her Harry Potter saga, or, as in my time, the success of Michael Ende or Tolkien himself. Well
odd, fantastic, as always, is more of a journal that has crept into the party for a guest with all of the law.
And to change that, does not help anyone starting with the parents, other blessed creatures. And after this prologue explaining step by detailing the case. This year one of the books to read (or suffer, as the case) was "Session Spiritualism" by Carlos Puerto. I have not had the pleasure of reading the novella, but I think it's a fantastic book "false", a little style Gisbert ("The Venetian mirrors," "Something awakens in secret"), based on a theoretical premise tells a fantastic rather realistic story in which fantasy is fully explained. Although it does not rule out the surprise ending with a touch that some ambiguity to the story.
In any case, although this is not a sub-genre that awakens my enthusiasm, I can not stop watching this little work with some sympathy, it is possible to be truly effective in awakening the reader bug between our beasts.
Until the parent of the beast of the day saw the book and said his children "that" do not read it, it was dangerous, a mess, and anti-religious and potato patatin. And the child does not read the book, and peace here and then glory. Such a huge
closed head which Iranian jail is tricky at this stage of the game. It is a minority position but someone still go out there at the mention crossing a word spiritualism or anything that smacks of Terror I find worthy of other times and latitudes. No, Spain 2010, here and now.
course, the stupidity of the parents of the boy is total if we consider that other years the little angel had to read things like "City of the Beasts" by Isabel Allende or "High Risk" by Nick Manns, the latter a true ghost story with a couple of little scenes quite successful for a book of the kind that we speak (somewhat cutrelux youth literature). Of course, the author or publisher, older dogs are sniffing the bigoted minds similar problems and settle the issue by putting bland and generic titles fool getting certain characters, who judge books by their titles alone, probably why they are unable to go beyond the cover in its sights readers.
In short, amusing if it were not for what, at bottom, is worthwhile. Just do not suffer much by the student reading the book usually means 10-20% of a quarter note, so unless a dunce (which equal each other), do not read a non-dangerous material leads to the automatic suspension. And so we will, of course.