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Mild Vertigo by Mieko Kanai (2023, Trade Paperback)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780811232289
- Book Title
- Mild Vertigo
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Genre
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Topic
- Linguistics / General
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Item Weight
- 6.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 192 Pages
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Product Information
In this intoxicating stream-of-consciousness novel, Mieko Kanai tackles the existential traps of motherhood, marriage, and domestic captivity
Product Identifiers
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10
081123228x
ISBN-13
9780811232289
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15058369071
Product Key Features
Book Title
Mild Vertigo
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Linguistics / General
Publication Year
2023
Genre
Language Arts & Disciplines
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
6.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pl855.A52k3713 2023
Reviews
Mild Vertigo remains a short but monumental read that captures the human experience in fresh, evocative prose. Under Barton's assured hand, the philosophical underpinnings of Natsumi's worldview teeter into sight, fleeting yet profound., In the vertigo lurking at the depths of a very ordinary life, Mieko Kanai succeeds in uncovering the tranquility and cruelty that exist side by side., The text generates urgency and momentum by recreating the experience, recognizable to most people, of constant motion and total immersion in information communicated by an overabundance of visual signifiers., Mieko Kanai's writing - encompassing fiction, poetry and criticism - has been sorely overlooked in the English-speaking world, so the new translation of her 1997 novel Mild Vertigo is a welcome arrival. The book is a surrealistic portrayal of quotidian middle-class life in late-20th century Japan., [Mieko Kanai is] not interested in describing objects; she wants to accentuate their amorphous nature. ... Sections of the novel first appeared as monthly installments in a glossy magazine about bourgeois homemaking; also included are two reviews of photography exhibitions. Kanai says that these previously published articles and reviews, which appeared in different journals, were written in order to be collected as a novel. Written in order to be collected. The exhibition reviews, the advice flipped through in a women's magazine: always a novel., A unique form of realism cultured from rhythmic, alert sentences that left my sense of the everyday altered, and made me desperate to read everything else Kanai has written., ""Its great drama lies not in the events it recounts, but in its stylistic fidelity to mental experience."", We do all need homes; we all deserve clean, safe, warm, and welcoming ones. Mild Vertigo's detailed attention and moments of beauty honor the work of creating such a space, and its steep descents into unhappiness and revulsion demonstrate the sometimes-staggering emotional cost of doing so. Of all the many things in Mild Vertigo to admire, perhaps the biggest one is that Kanai gets the paradox of domesticity right., A dizzying, kaleidoscopic novel. Bold yet simple, quiet yet choric, Mild Vertigo brilliantly captures the noisiness of a lonely life., The greatest Japanese author you've never heard of...Mieko Kanai's gift is attention: attention to familial memory, to overheard conversation, to those small glints (sometimes a dagger, sometimes a gift) that can appear in conversations among friends., A sharp and sleek read that questions what is automated and what it means to be knowing, in a life compartmentalized into ribbons., Like Mrs. Dalloway, Mild Vertigo plunges the reader into the mind of a woman of comfortable means who is trying to make sense of her world even as she is bombarded by a tumult of impressions, memories, worries, constraints. My thoughts began to mimic the buzzy, galumphing rhythms of Natsumi's interior world. I began to wonder whether I had always thought this way, whether this book was making me aware of the true nature of my mind for the first time. Such is the mesmerizing wonder of Kanai's prose, as translated by Polly Barton., Mieko Kanai Is Not Interested in Describing Objects; She Wants to Accentuate Their Amorphous Nature., Mild Vertigo deftly captures the monotony of housework and the loss of self in family life, exploring a generalized sense of dissatisfaction with the options available to women in contemporary capitalism. Kanai's beautiful and strange prose takes the reader inside the mind of a woman whose world is both mundane and disintegrating., Laden with descriptions of objects and locations, Kanai's detail-rich sentences offer a specificity of time and place. A subtle, thoughtful portrait of a woman chafing at the demands and constraints of domestic life., For me, Mieko Kanai's writing represents one of the high points of Japanese literature. The tiny details giving shape to the everyday, the daily repetitions, the memories that come suddenly flooding back, other people's voices--all of these described in winding, iridescent prose. Their utter ordinariness, their utter irreplaceability, make for a reading experience brimming with joy from start to finish., Mild Vertigo is an immersive, uncanny narrative held taut over eight chapters that contrasts existing and living, seeing and viewing. An enthralling horror story about tedium that pushes the reader tight up against the unmanageable moments of everyday life and the domestic., ""It's the observations of subtle minutiae that make Mild Vertigo an effortlessly intriguing read. Between a stream-of-consciousness-inspired prose, image patterns, and consistent pivots of thought, Kanai establishes the most surprising thing about this novel: its ability to make the vertiginous hypnotic.""
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Lccn
2023-001717
Dewey Decimal
895.636
Dewey Edition
23
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