Die Chroniken des Aufziehvogels

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Die Chroniken des Aufziehvogels (Hardcover, German language, 2020, DuMont Buchverlag)

Hardcover, 1004 pages

German language

Published Jan. 1, 2020 by DuMont Buchverlag.

ISBN:
978-3-8321-8142-0
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5 stars (2 reviews)

Japan’s most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II. (source)

24 editions

Re-read after 20 years and it hits way differnt

5 stars

Weird and brilliant, the book constantly tempts you into decoding it’s meaning, and then immediately pulls the rug out from under your mind-feet.

I also felt like I needed a giant white board to track the seemingly endless inter-connections, parallels, and metaphors, but I’m not sure a large enough white board exists, and even if it did I’d probably just end up with a giant mess of ideas rendered less beautiful than the novel itself. All that said, his writing about female sexuality is weird and deeply uncomfortable.

Subjects

  • literary fiction
  • contemporary fantasy
  • psychological fiction
  • parapsychology
  • fate and fatalism
  • Fiction
  • Japanese fiction
  • Man-woman relationships
  • Marriage
  • Missing persons
  • Politics and government
  • Translations into English
  • Fiction, psychological
  • Japan, fiction
  • Man-woman relationships, fiction
  • Fiction, political
  • Near and far eastern fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • Japanese Psychological fiction
  • Heisei period