In an unnamed Japanese city, three seemingly normal and unrelated characters find work at a sprawling industrial factory. They each focus intently on their specific jobs: one studies moss, one shreds paper, and the other proofreads incomprehensible documents. Life in the factory has its own logic an...

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1. Verfasser:	Oyamada, Hiroko 1983- (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser:	Boyd, David W. (ÜbersetzerIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York New Directions Publishing 2019
Schriftenreihe:	New Directions paperbook 1460
Schlagworte:	Hallucinations and illusions Industrial relations Japan Satirical literature Humorous fiction Fiction Psychological fiction Satirical fiction
Zusammenfassung:	In an unnamed Japanese city, three seemingly normal and unrelated characters find work at a sprawling industrial factory. They each focus intently on their specific jobs: one studies moss, one shreds paper, and the other proofreads incomprehensible documents. Life in the factory has its own logic and momentum, and, eventually, the factory slowly expands and begins to take over everything, enveloping these poor workers. The very margins of reality seem to be dissolving: all forms of life capriciously evolve, strange creatures begin to appear. After a while, it could be weeks or years, the workers don't even have the ability to ask themselves: where does the factory end and the rest of the world begin? Told in three alternating first-person narratives, The Factory casts a vivid--if sometimes surreal--portrait of the absurdity and meaninglessness of modern life. With hints of Kafka and unexpected moments of creeping humor, Hiroko Oyamada is one of the boldest writers of her generation
Beschreibung:	"Originally published in 2013 as Kojo by Shinchosha Publishing Co., Tokyo"--Title page verso
Beschreibung:	116 pages 21 cm
ISBN:	9780811228855 0811228851