
Toshiyuki Horie
Author of The Bear and the Paving Stone
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Works by Toshiyuki Horie
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Associated Works
Digital Geishas and Talking Frogs: The Best 21st Century Short Stories from Japan (2011) — Contributor — 19 copies
Von Katzentötern, schwebenden Rauchern und der Suche nach Nilpferden Kurzgeschichten aus Japan (2018) — Contributor — 2 copies
平成の名小説 (新潮2019年08月号増刊) — Contributor — 1 copy
津島佑子展 いのちの声をさかのぼる — Contributor; Editor — 1 copy
現代詩手帖 2009年 03月号 特集=いま読みたい詩の本100冊 — Contributor — 1 copy
東京創元社創立70周年記念小冊子 — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Horie, Toshiyuki
- Legal name
- 堀江敏幸
- Birthdate
- 1964-01-03
- Gender
- male
- Occupations
- 早稲田大学文学学術院教授
Professeur de littérature française à l'université de Meiji - Nationality
- Japan
- Birthplace
- Tajimi, Gifu, Japan
- Associated Place (for map)
- Gifu, Japan
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3.5 stars, rounded up.
A small collection of three stories. These stories are so quiet, it's easy to think they're insubstantial. No drama and no plot; these are like whispers, or the sound of waves as they recede from the shore. It was a bit like entering a dream world—a word or an action leads to memories, or to the imagination taking flight. Loss, nostalgia, and a melancholic, bittersweet feeling pervade throughout, but I still felt strangely nourished when I finished.
The only that show more lowered my star rating is the fact that these pieces flirted with the surreal and the strange, but that aspect of it never really fully bloomed. I would have liked these to be a little stranger. show less
A small collection of three stories. These stories are so quiet, it's easy to think they're insubstantial. No drama and no plot; these are like whispers, or the sound of waves as they recede from the shore. It was a bit like entering a dream world—a word or an action leads to memories, or to the imagination taking flight. Loss, nostalgia, and a melancholic, bittersweet feeling pervade throughout, but I still felt strangely nourished when I finished.
The only that show more lowered my star rating is the fact that these pieces flirted with the surreal and the strange, but that aspect of it never really fully bloomed. I would have liked these to be a little stranger. show less
I like the writing, and some sections of each story were great to read, but I found the endings of all three stories too abrupt. The whole Emile Littre biography in the title story went on too long for me too.
show more 思わせぶりなタイトルに惹かれて読み始めたが、読み進めても何も得られないような気がして、途中で止めてしまった。描写は面白いし、上手いとも思う。話の筋が入り組んで、しばしば飛ぶのも悪くはない。ただ、どうしてもわざわざ凝った演出にしているような、中身は大したものではないのに外面だけ大げさに見せているような、そんな気がしてしまう。小説は物語にとって必然であったほうがいいように思う。この話はこう語られるから、こう描かれるから意味がある、という必然があればわりとどんな手法でも違和感はないのではないか。あるいは、読み手である私に、この本を理解するために必要ななにかが欠けていたのかもしれない。 show less
Apr 10, 2015Japanese
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- Rating
- 3.5
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