Thursday, August 15, 2024

the rainbow by yasunari kawabata (trans. haydn trowell)

another imagery-heavy novel. the number one thing you get out of it is the flowers and plant life, then the interiors, then weather, then the city layouts. the most striking thing is the dialogue of the young characters being so heavy with reminiscence & regret. for obvious historical reasons.

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roadside picnic by arkady & boris strugatsky (trans. olena bormashenko)

 It was lovely to read this after making attempts at books where it seemed like the prose was struggling to convey information, because the ...