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Chansons Populaires De L'ère Showa (1994)

by Ryū Murakami(Favorite Author)

3.52 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

2809702810 (ISBN13: 9782809702811)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Philippe Picquier

review 1: A true novel of Murakami Ryu, full with noise and fury. The history is completely improbable. 6 thirty year old women make the war with 6 post-teenagers. That finishes with blow of bazooka in a quasi destruction of Tokyo.It is a kind of exercise of style, a literary manga often (involuntarily) funny. Murakami is able to write in a classical way with success as in Raffles hotel. But it is in excess and baroque disproportion he takes all his scale. This novel is one of his best.
review 2: This is supposed to read as violent satire about alienation in modern Japanese culture. I guess it was also supposed to be funny. Instead it came across as shallow and reliant on shock value to supplant meaning.I'm sorry to say I often find works by contemporary Japanese wr... moreiters lacking in depth and nuance. This book reinforces that notion. It reads like a bad anime. It is loud, but says nothing. less

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