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I Am A Japanese Writer (2008)

by Dany Laferrière(Favorite Author)

3.27 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1553655834 (ISBN13: 9781553655831)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Douglas & McIntyre

review 1: Perhaps I didn't get it. But I think it's more likely that there was very little "to get." General philosophical rambling on the part of the author, combined with shotty characterization and casual sexism. While I'm fairly sure the racist tendencies of the uninteresting, uninterested narrator were meant to be an ironic comment on "something," I didn't find anything about this to be engaging or enlightening. Just... 200 pages of dull. Who decides what makes it onto the Canadian Lit course reading lists, anyway? This is a book I'll be glad to forget I ever read.
review 2: Laferrière is an annoying man and a bad novelist, all of his characters are cardboard cut-outs, his narrators are flat versions of himself, his plots close to nonexistent, he's pretentious and ... moreas obvious as bird shit and this book, terribly appealing and amusing. He is not a Japanese writer, really. Neiher is Mishima a Haitian writer. So look at that. Hm. What I mean to say, I guess, is that everyone should read some Laferrière. less

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