Manic Beansprouts
Adam Thirlwell: On Yoko Tawada, 21 November 2024
The Bridegroom Was a Dog
by Yoko Tawada, translated by Margaret Mitsutani.
Granta, 85 pp., £12.99, May,978 1 80351 132 0 Show More
by Yoko Tawada, translated by Margaret Mitsutani.
Granta, 85 pp., £12.99, May,
Spontaneous Acts
by Yoko Tawada, translated by Susan Bernofsky.
Dialogue, 137 pp., £15.99, July,978 0 349 70423 4 Show More
by Yoko Tawada, translated by Susan Bernofsky.
Dialogue, 137 pp., £15.99, July,
Suggested in the Stars
by Yoko Tawada, translated by Margaret Mitsutani.
Granta, 229 pp., £12.99, October,978 1 80351 099 6 Show More
by Yoko Tawada, translated by Margaret Mitsutani.
Granta, 229 pp., £12.99, October,
“... In the era of the cosmopolitan languages of power, like Arabic or Latin, it might have seemed obvious that someone would choose to write in a second language. It only became something to be thought about, to be argued over and interpreted, in the era when vernaculars became nationalist instruments, and a writer was bound to their first language not just pragmatically but politically ... ”
