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The back of the hand, the last surface where blood vessels and discolored skin swell and stroll in succession. Beyond the strings that encounter one another in tiny embroidered laces frayed around the wrist. Lying flat, over the tiny shell-shaped buttons in the fold of her chest, lined up in six answering signals of raspy whistling. Without moving, the eyes walk and touch the world, taking along words as company. The true, absolute end, her eyes roam, they roam freely across that world. No matter when now is, it can’t be stopped from being now somewhere - and that has become one of the few friends she has left. In our eyes, the old woman has lived for so long. The leaf motif engraved on the hook of the hat rack, the round knobs on the chest of drawers, the walnut picture frame, the curling pattern of ribbons on the wall - none will fly into motion as they once did, no matter how long she stares at them. The caregiver is very kind.Ī small chandelier hangs from the ceiling motionless, cloudy with dust. Clear liquid just within reach of the right hand. The square-shaped air breathed in and out. She liked the cool bit at the corner of the sheets stretched out.

A pitcher of water, some medicine - familiar yet unfamiliar. Lugging a vacuum cleaner, fresh towels in hand. The caregiver trots in and out several times a day. In our eyes, the old woman lies still for a long, long time. The curtains always half-closed, at times matching her eyelids. On this day of absolute solidity, in our eyes, she has lived for so long. In her bedroom piled with familiar objects, all we know are the bits and pieces that have kept on piling up. The old woman lives there, in the faint flicker. In a faint flicker, she dreams a dream all in yellow. The old woman on the bed at the end of her life, the true, absolute end.

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This translation appeared in the second issue of Monkey Business, which came out as a paperback in 2012, while you can read a more traditional type of story by the same author, “Dream of Love, Etc.,” in the third issue, which is also available in ePub, PDF and Kindle. We could go on and on about how this shows how well American literature is read in Japan, and how much affinity there is between words and music in contemporary Japanese fiction, but more than anything else we think “A Once-Perfect Day for Bananafish” is a great read, which requires no knowledge of Salinger’s original to be enjoyed. Mieko is a wonderful singer-songwriter as well as one of Japan’s major novelists, and we can hear the beautiful cadence of her poetry in Hitomi Yoshio’s great translation. We love the idea of the three-year-old Sybil Carpenter in “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” as an old woman at the end of her life, with the memory of that strange young man, Seymour Glass, flickering in and out of her consciousness. (Some time before, Mieko had contributed a beautiful essay in memory of Kurt Vonnegut to Hayakawa’s SF Magazine.) Yet when she submitted this terrific prose poem, “A Once-Perfect Day for Bananafish,” based on what is arguably Salinger’s very best short story - we were blown away. We expected it would turn out to be a nice homage to the beloved writer. Salinger died, we thought it would be wonderful to feature a poem or story about him or his work by Mieko Kawakami - who had once told us of her fondness for Salinger’s Nine Stories - in the Japanese version of Monkey Business. Thus Naoyuki Ii discusses the “office literature” of Keita Genji, Franz Kafka and Herman Melville in issues two and three, while the third issue also features EnJoe Toh’s take on a hilarious tale about a troupe of desperate actors on the lam penned by Japan’s leading modernist, Riichi Yokomitsu. Monkey Business is a literary journal that aims to introduce English-speaking readers to what’s going on in the contemporary Japanese literary scene, but we also try to establish a dialogue between old and new fiction whenever we can, on occasion asking authors to select their favorite classic and write an essay about it. Recommended by Ted Goossen & Motoyuki Shibata Salinger’s work, dialogue between characters moves the plot forward the speech is sufficiently vague to leave the.

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