One character in this story describes "placid corpses" floating in the Benares "bloated up like sunfish." That character later taunts another for fearing his entire body will become a "vagina in heat," and that character treasures a Georges Batailles photograph of a man being drawn and quartered. The phrase "a certain party" is used to refer to a man after his son is shot for desertion, about two years before a failed August 16th rebellion during which the fighters sing the titular Bach cantata. This work opens with its narrator throwing a pair of nostril hair clippers at a dwarfen lunatic who has crept into the hospital room where he lies dying of imaginary liver cancer. Mocking the right-w
One character in this story describes "placid corpses" floating in the Benares "bloated up like sunfish." That character later taunts another for fearing his entire body will become a "vagina in heat," and that character treasures a Georges Batailles photograph of a man being drawn and quartered. The phrase "a certain party" is used to refer to a man after his son is shot for desertion, about two years before a failed August 16th rebellion during which the fighters sing the titular Bach cantata. This work opens with its narrator throwing a pair of nostril hair clippers at a dwarfen lunatic who has crept into the hospital room where he lies dying of imaginary liver cancer. Mocking the right-wing politics of Yukio Mishima, this story is one of four in a collection that also includes Prize Stock, Aghwee the Sky Monster, and the tale that nicknames the narrator's brain-damaged son Eeyore, "Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness." For 10 points, an enormous golden chrysanthemum in a purple aurora irradiates the world at the end of what novella by Kenzaburo Oe?
One character in this story describes "placid corpses" floating in the Benares "bloated up like sunfish."
The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away [or Waga Namida O Nuguitamu Hi]