PURPOSE / 主旨
Waseda Bungaku, a literary magazine known for its long standing history of introducing contemporary Japanese Writers, has assembled a collection of short stories on the topic relating on the earth quake that hit Northern Japan last year.
In this short story novel , Mr. Furukawa depicts scenes relating to a dream like reality with a sense of an urban landscape in the danger of a natural disaster.
As the translator of this novel, my feelings towards the soliloquy of the main character are experimental in the Japanese language, yet fit the theatrical forms in the English literature.
