Dogra Magra
by Kyūsaku Yumeno
On This Page
Description
"An astonishing, unclassifiable work, Dogra Magra is both an uparalleled writing performance and an extraordinary detective novel with a parafoxial program: novel where detectives are criminals. Or rather where the murderer is a victim. An amnesiac wakes up in the middle of the night in the room of a psychiatric hopital. We will see him struggling in the middle of a spider's web woven by the institution's doctors, searching for his identity and possible connection to a mysterious criminal show more case [...] A masterpiece of parody writing where the Buddhist doctrine of karma and the psychoanalytic concepts of the uncounscious rub shoulders, this disturbing novel to the extreme, published almost confidentially in 1935 was rediscovered in the sixties. Since then, it has become a cult book in Japan, and reviews and studies about it follow one another continously. When we close the last page, we understande why it is now considered in his country as one for the major novels of the twentieth century." -- back cover of book show lessTags
Recommendations
Member Recommendations
Mars by Fritz Zorn
by iijjaallkkaa
Member Reviews
Je n'arrive pas à savoir si j'ai aimé ce livre déroutant. Je l'ai terminé, ce qui veut dire que j'y ai trouvé quelque chose, mais il faut quand même s'accrocher un peu. Je l'ai lu il y a quelques temps et j'en garde le souvenir de quelque chose de bizarre, incompréhensible souvent, agaçant aussi, mais pas inintéressant.
May 31, 2007French
Ratings
Members
- Recently Added By
Author Information
30+ Works 171 Members
Common Knowledge
- Original title
- ドグラ・マグラ
- Original publication date
- 1935
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 895.6 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature Literatures of East and Southeast Asia Japanese
- LCC
- PL819 .U4 .D614 — Language and Literature Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Languages of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Japanese language and literature Japanese literature Individual authors and works
- BISAC
Statistics
- Members
- 76
- Popularity
- 414,462
- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (3.89)
- Languages
- English, French, Japanese
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 6
- ASINs
- 2
