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Loading... Sayonara, Gangstersby Genichiro Takahashi
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No one does absurd better than some Japanese authors. Takahashi is one of them. The book is divided into three parts. I'd give the middle part - The Poetry School - four stars. (  ) slickdpdx | May 13, 2008 |  What a weird, neat little book! It's almost impossible for me to describe the plot to this novel or what I took away from it. Suffice it to say I now have a much higher appreciation of the postmodern and absurd. Sayonara, Gangsters is incredibly charming, and the design and presentation of the English version is impressive. Vertical did an excellent job with this. (  ) JackFrost | Apr 4, 2008 | 
 A poet is talking to a refrigerator. The refrigerator with whom he is conversing is Virgil -- yes, that Virgil, author of "The Aeneid" and later Dante's guide through the inferno. Virgil the refrigerator, Virgil the bard, is telling his young interlocutor about the calling they share: "A poet is always aiming to commit the perfect crime. But what, you ask, is this perfect crime? It is to create an entirely indecipherable work of art."
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