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To Japanese
The 2nd Selected Works
TITLE
Post-World War II Japanese Short Stories, Volume 2
(Sengo tanpen shosetsu saihakken 2: Sei no kongen e)
AUTHOR
Translator
FRENCH / Jean-Jacques Tschudin & Pascal Simon published
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KEY POINTS
  • A collection of short stories that illustrate the progressive transformation of sexual "humanity" during the post-war era
SYNOPSIS
The magical power of sex that lies deep within us
 
During the war, Nomura is living with a woman, and their relationship is equivalent to marriage. Feeling that things will probably get chaotic when the war ends anyway, they never bother to register their marriage. From the start, Nomura sees the relationship as a purely wartime one. The woman owns a small bar and has relationships with all her customers, so Nomura always believed that she would probably continue to see other men even after the two of them began to live together.
After the war ends, Nomura remembers that his love for the woman was supposed to end with the end of the war, when he suddenly begins feeling dejected. Could he be beginning to feel love for the woman…? (Ango Sakaguchi "One Woman and the War")
 
For the past two years, I have not participated in the revolution or worked on behalf of the nation or a family; I have just been making money so I can spend time eating and drinking with women. Recently, I have been having relationships with two poor working women, Yumiko and Fusako. Yumiko works for a newspaper and is very busy. She also has many men friends with whom she can go out eating and drinking. Fusako, on the other hand, works in a fine coffee shop in Kanda, and I can go and meet her whenever I want. Meeting Fusako enables me to drown out my irritation at not being able to meet Yumiko. Fusako says "eating delicious things is my favorite thing, you know," and she gets me to treat her to mint candies, ice creams, cutlets... until her desires are sated. Then, as if expressing her thanks for the food and drink, she gives me her body. (Taijun Takeda, "The Woman who Eats Things;")
 
This collection includes 11 compelling short stories about the eros of people set in time periods from the period of World War II through the present
 
GENRE: Literary fiction
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