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A youth of college age, his older mistress, friendsrandom friends, they might be calledliving near an American military base and experimenting with drugs both hard and soft.In rapidly sketched scenes gliding from the everyday real to the hallucinatory, the author has used what he himself calls his narrative zoom lens. The novel is all but plotless, but the imagery is tellingly vivid, the literary equivalent of genre painting, according to one critic.The participants seem caught in their hardrock scene, sadly unfree, having neither the will nor the energy to break away. And over all there seems to hang the heavy shadow of selfdestructiveness, not only in terms of their present situation but with regard to what the future holds for themand the question is inescapable, for human society as well? In this mirror reflecting the present, personal relations deteriorate, violence of the moment erupts, and communication inches slowly towards nullity. One asks, eventually, if the hallucinations, whatever their source, are so very far from the vague misgivings and hopeful imaginings of the man in the street.The author coolly and unsentimentally distills from this morass a feeling of something pure and unsullied. His technique, with its lack of taboos, of moral condemnation, and of the superfluous, comes very close to the insouciance of cinema verite, in which there is also a touch of surrealism.Representing a sharp and conscious turning away from the introspective trend of postwar Japanese literature, this work polarized critics and public alike and soon attracted international attention, a sign of winds of change, if not specifically of things to come.
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