Transcript Banana Yoshimoto Asleep

Banana Yoshimoto
Asleep
Title: Asleep
Author: Banana Yoshimoto
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Pages: 177
Publisher: , 0
ISBN: 0802138209
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Size: 8.4 MB
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Description
Demonstrating again the artful simplicity and depth of her vision, Banana Yoshimoto
reestablishes her place as a writer of international stature in a book that may be her most
delightful since Kitchen.
In Asleep, Yoshimoto spins the stories of three young women bewitched into a spiritual sleep.
One, mourning for a lost lover, finds herself sleepwalking at night. Another, who has embarked
on a relationship with a man whose wife is in a coma, finds herself suddenly unable to stay
awake. A third finds her sleep haunted by a woman against whom she was once pitted in a love
triangle. Sly and mystical as a ghost story, with a touch of Kafkaesque surrealism, Asleep is an
enchanting new book from one of the best writers in contemporary international fiction.
Insightful reviews
??g???.: Io capisco che il sonno nel racconto sia solo un modo per rappresentare la situazione
della protagonista, ma mettendomi nei suoi panni non ho potuto non trovare le sue azioni
veramente assurde.
Vai a dormire prima di mezzanotte, dormi fino alle 2 del pomeriggio e già wow, che dormita e la
cosa non ti stupisce? No, lei se ne stupisce veramente poco. Esce, non riesce a svegliarsi
nemmeno dopo due caffè, e cosa pensa? "muoio di sonno, meglio se torno a casa a dormire"
ma hai dormito fino ad ora! Torna a casa e ovviamente dorme, ma fino a quando? Le cinque del
mattino. Si sveglia e "ops" ma non ti viene il dubbio di avere qualcosa di grosso che non va?
No, lei piuttosto pensa che la ex moglie del suo amante le abbia mandato qualcosa, assurdo.
Altra assurdità nell'altro racconto,come fa Marie a sapere sempre tutto? come mai nessuno si
spaventa? Lei incontra il probabile ( sicuro per me!) figlio del fratello morto e quando incontra
Marie la tocca e pensa che abbia incontrato il fratello e sa anche dove ( nella hall di un albergo )
solo che ovviamente poi si corregge dicendo che "ah giusto, è morto era solo una sensazione"
ma la protagonista sa che questa sensazione è in realtà vera perché lei ha incontrato il
presunto figlio e come potrebbe saperlo marie? ma per lei è una cosa normalissima.
Tolte alcune assurdità il libro è carino e si legge bene.
lilykems: Nonostante la brutta esperienza con il primo libro che ho letto quest'estate (tre volte
all'alba di Baricco) che si presentava come una raccolta di tre racconti, non ho perso la fiducia e
ho tentato di leggere questo libro che si presenta nella stessa forma.
Fortunatamente questa volta non sono stata delusa.
I tre racconti si concentrano su personaggi diversi, tutti personaggi che sono rimasti bloccati in
qualche modo, che in seguito ad un evento in maniera più o meno consapevole si trovano in
una situazione di ambiguità e non sono inizialmente in grado di uscirne. Queste tre situazioni
hanno tutte uno stretto legame con la notte, che sembra l'emblema del tempo in cui lo scorrere
della vita si blocca.
Questo libro mi è piaciuto davvero molto, dallo stile dell'autrice a mio parere sublime, alla
capacità di trattare temi non facili (come l'amore quasi dannoso, il tradimento, la malattia, la
morte, il suicidio) in maniera mai pesante, rendendo il tutto piacevole e scorrevole da leggere.
L'autrice sembra rivolgersi a tutte le persone che si sono trovate in situazioni simili a quelle dei
protagonisti, e fargli capire che anche per loro è possibile uscirne.
Unico punto leggermente a sfavore è che a volte non riuscivo a distinguere nettamente i
flashback dalla narrazione corrente perché quasi si intrecciavano con questa. Forse unico
motivo per cui non posso dargli un 5 pieno. Libro comunque promosso a pienissimi voti con un
bel 4/5
Cagne:
Tre storie, tre donne con i loro onnipresenti compagni part-time a margine, intente a cercare
di capire che succede nel presente in base al passato. Yoshimoto lo spiega da se nel suo
postscriptum alla fine del libro, ciò che lega le storie, e come le sue protagoniste siano diverse
versioni di se stessa, cambiano solo i personaggi e le circostanze della storia, riconfigurata
attorno alla narratrice in tre versioni della stessa drammaticità del quotidiano. Molti elementi
sono comuni: qualcuno è morto, qualche relazione è incerta, qualche tocco di magia o
superstizione aggiunge del fascino alla storia e fa superare un trauma emotivo.
'Sonno profondo' il racconto più lungo che da il nome alla raccolta, mi ha dato l'impressione
che il personaggio più interessante fosse purtroppo quello che non c'era più.
'Viaggiatori nella notte', toccante in maniera imprevista, ma un po' confusa nella gestione dei
diversi piani temporali.
In 'Un'esperienza', ho trovato interessante un riaffacciarsi per una volta, anche se solo per
un malinconico istante, di un attimo di diversità, che per un uomo eterosessuale significa un
tocco di piccante da parte di un autrice generalmente non molto erotica, ma che per altre
persone significa visibilità.
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Three stories, three women with their auxiliary partners on the side, busy trying to
understand how to deal with their present, while affected by past events. Yoshimoto explains it
herself in the appendix at the end of the book, what ties the stories together, and how her
protagonists are different versions of herself, what changes is the characters and the
circumstances of the story, reconfigured around the narrator in three renditions of the same
drama of the daily life, the common tragic events everyone goes through eventually, whom our
interest is drawn to. Many shared elements: somebody died, a relationship is uncertain, a touch
of magic or superstition gives some appeal the story and pushes somebody over a past trauma.
'Deep sleep', the longest item in the collection, whose title is the book's, gave me the
impression that the most interesting character was sadly the one who wasn't around anymore.
'Travellers in the night', touching in an unexpected way, but a little confusing in the way
moving back and forth the timeline was handled.
In 'An experience', I've found interesting how for once, even if for a melanchonic moment,
some diversity surfaced. For a straight male it means a touch of spicy from an author usually not
much indulging in the erotic, but for other people it means visibility.
Angela: i do not quite understand what to assert approximately Asleep. It was once my first
Banana Yoshimoto ebook and whereas i did not dislike it, i did not necesarily locate something
specifically to love approximately it.It was once bizarre in that method that eastern literature is
generally weird, and typically i am ok with that. Asleep includes 3 brief tales (or possibly
novellas?) and none of them fairly have any finishing to them. Normally, i am ok with the
ambiguous finishing that eastern authors like so much, yet having 3 tales back-to-back within
the related publication with little to no conclusions acquired on my nerves, I guess.However, i'd
nonetheless say that should you do not brain ambiguous endings and feature a specific thing for
Asian literature, then opt for it.
Malcolm: a lot of Yoshimoto’s paintings is characterized by means of pathos, sadness, vacancy
and craving within the experience that lots of her characters appear to be lacking anything or
someone, looking or one way or the other somewhat incomplete. She maintains this themeamong-the-young in those 3 novellas (according to the selling blurb) or lengthy brief tales (I stay
doubtful precisely what a novella could be) approximately younger ladies – all, it seems, of their
early- to mid-20s – facing loss and sacrifice over which they've got little control.In the first,
cousins Shibami and Mari are still, after a year, facing Yoshihiro’s (brother and lover
respectively) death, the autumn out from his romance with Boston-based Sarah, Mari’s
parents’ competition to the romance and how one can fill a void. within the second, Fumi’s
desires lead her to the belief that she must touch a former rival-in-love, who seems to be dead,
and that she had superior emotions for the rival than she did for the lover. Finally, in ‘Asleep’,
Terako (who sleeps) struggles along with her romance with the married Mr Iwanaga and lack of
former flatmate Shiori. In each one case, the lifeless – Yoshihiro, Haru & Shiori (and to an
quantity the comatose Mrs Iwanaga) – exert a difficult pull over the narrators (Shibami, Fumi &
Terako) that forestalls them from absolutely functioning – those are, after all, approximately
pathos and absence, yet in each one case the absence is managed.‘Asleep’ is a bit more
advanced that the opposite tales, ‘Night and Night’s Travellers’ and ‘Love Songs’, partly
simply because Terako is much less socially situated than Shibami or Fumi and partly simply
because Terako feels the absence of 2 girls – Shiori & Mrs Iwanaga – yet in each one case the
tales are typified by means of a gentle, subtle, understated aesthetic and a disappointment that
takes us into reflections at the transitory points of life, dwelling and social and household
relations. this isn't to assert that the tales are pessimistic or perhaps nihilistic; in every one
there's an optimism no longer of restoration – those girls aren't in poor health – yet of
rearranging existence and its kin to discover a brand new order whereas additionally being
conscious that it is, in itself, fleeting, volatile yet of the now.It is that this final element of the
stories, the seeming wisdom of the instability of order, that places Yoshimoto’s within the
culture of the possible post-youth fiction culture of Salinger and Coupland yet that makes it extra
ethically demanding and interesting than Coupland’s traits to nihilistic resolution; Yoshimoto’s
endings are open and her characters in those tales stay able to be destabilised. The writing is
gorgeous (all compliment the following to Michael Emmerich as translator) and sparse, and
we're left feeling stable concerning the future; outing referred to as it gorgeous, the reviewer
there's right. this can be lucrative (and to an volume reassuring) fiction; a unprecedented
mixture of pathos and optimism. at any time when I learn Yoshimoto, i'm wondering why it's
been see you later considering that I final picked up certainly one of her books. hugely
recommended.
Kerry: This booklet simply did not have an identical attraction for me as "Kitchen" (one of
Banana's former works) did. It felt loosely written and a section disjointed, leaving you with a
slighty unsatisfying feeling. within the moment tale the time period "midget" is thrown around. no
longer in a unfavorable way, yet I view it as a negitive term, so i used to be nonetheless
offended. Out of all 3 stories, i need to say I cherished "Asleep", the best. It had a very good
premise, yet in the direction of the top it misplaced me. i guess i wished extra secret or common
strangeness.
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