Dettagli del libro
Formato
Brossura
Pagine
244
Lingua
Giapponese
Pubblicato
May 10, 2007
Editore
Taifūn Bukkusu Japan
ISBN-10
4990362101
ISBN-13
9784990362102
Descrizione
This book is a sensational product of the Southeast Asian literary world, featuring experimental-minded, eccentric and humane characters in a long-awaited collection of twenty short stories by Thai writer Prabda Yoon.
The collection features Bara-mee Khong Pho Mun, featuring a protagonist who struggles with being stigmatized as a "man who can enjoy fame" due to the path-smoothing influence of his renowned father. Khwam Na Ja Pen describes a long reminiscence of a moment in the life of a sheet of paper dropping from a careless hand to the floor until it is picked up. The collection, which is characterized by its fresh stretch of imagination and a barrage of deep words, is a new type of Southeast Asian literature, quite different from the works amid recent booming light novel popularity.
In another story, Prabda Yoon describes a family that can secure its ties only through obsessive acts; a widow who considers her breasts and a meat bun with the same sense of value; and a proudly independent person who enjoys "reading"people in a park. These comic/tragic characters are described by a writer with a unique Thai mentality and seem quite humane. His works are full of characteristics of the Thai-style postmodern literature. (From the translatorﾕs afterword)
The translator's profile
The translator is Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Professor Seiji Udo. Born in Fukuoka, he graduated from Waseda University School of Social Sciences while working as an assistant curator at the Goto Museum. From 1976 on, he stayed in Thailand for four years as a long-dispatched researcher in Bangkok from the Association for Overseas Technical Scholarship (AOTS). After coming back home, he completed his master's course at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Graduate School and became an assistant there in 1986. He is currently a professor whose specialty is Thai literature. His main writings include: Appreciating Thai Literature (the Japan Foundation Asia Center); Immoral Unreal: A Short Novel Collection by Modern Thai Writer Win Leowarin (the International Foundation for the Promotion of Languages and Culture); An Invitation to Southeast Asian Literature (coauthored, Dandansha); and Daily Japanese-Thai-English and Thai-Japanese-English Dictionary (Sanseido Bookstore Ltd.).
The collection features Bara-mee Khong Pho Mun, featuring a protagonist who struggles with being stigmatized as a "man who can enjoy fame" due to the path-smoothing influence of his renowned father. Khwam Na Ja Pen describes a long reminiscence of a moment in the life of a sheet of paper dropping from a careless hand to the floor until it is picked up. The collection, which is characterized by its fresh stretch of imagination and a barrage of deep words, is a new type of Southeast Asian literature, quite different from the works amid recent booming light novel popularity.
In another story, Prabda Yoon describes a family that can secure its ties only through obsessive acts; a widow who considers her breasts and a meat bun with the same sense of value; and a proudly independent person who enjoys "reading"people in a park. These comic/tragic characters are described by a writer with a unique Thai mentality and seem quite humane. His works are full of characteristics of the Thai-style postmodern literature. (From the translatorﾕs afterword)
The translator's profile
The translator is Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Professor Seiji Udo. Born in Fukuoka, he graduated from Waseda University School of Social Sciences while working as an assistant curator at the Goto Museum. From 1976 on, he stayed in Thailand for four years as a long-dispatched researcher in Bangkok from the Association for Overseas Technical Scholarship (AOTS). After coming back home, he completed his master's course at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Graduate School and became an assistant there in 1986. He is currently a professor whose specialty is Thai literature. His main writings include: Appreciating Thai Literature (the Japan Foundation Asia Center); Immoral Unreal: A Short Novel Collection by Modern Thai Writer Win Leowarin (the International Foundation for the Promotion of Languages and Culture); An Invitation to Southeast Asian Literature (coauthored, Dandansha); and Daily Japanese-Thai-English and Thai-Japanese-English Dictionary (Sanseido Bookstore Ltd.).