Advantages: unique and honest point of vue of society Disadvantages: not for sensitive people,violent
...it. Almost Transparent Blue is Ryű Murakami's first novel,written when he was still a student,and published in 1976,it was immediately well received and won the prestigious Akutagawa price. I am not sure it is very useful to precise it,but this book is of course a bestseller.,and it had been praised for starting a new style of literature. The book is quite short,and,in a succession of short chapters, describes a few days in a band of teenager's life. ... ...becomes very monotone.Each chapter is almost unconnected to the others,as if each day (or night) had not connection with the previous one, at least not for the characters. Relating the facts is 19 year-old Ryű,drug-taker (addict might be more true) and bisexual,which is why this book is sometimes being described as autobiographical (although it is not certain,in opposition with 69 by the same author).Through his eyes you discover -among a few others- ...
siri-j 29.09.2009 (30.09.2009)
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