Where Europe begins
By: Yoko Tawada ; translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky ; from the Japanese by Yumi Selden ; with a preface by Wim Wenders
Contributors: Bernofsky, Susan; Selden, Yumi, 1970-
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Description: "Where Europe Begins presents a collection of startling, innovative stories by Yoko Tawada. In these ten tales - two originally written in Japanese, eight in German - the reader moves through landscapes of fairy tales, family history, childhood memories, strange words and letters, dreams, and everyday reality." "In these stories' disparate settings - Japan, Siberia, Russia, and Germany - boundaries blur and shift between the physical and metaphysical, creating a fragmented world where a city or even the human body can become a sort of text. Suddenly, the reader becomes as much a foreigner as the author, or the figures that fill this book: the ghost of a burned woman, a traveler on the Trans-Siberian railroad, a mechanical doll, a tongue, a monk who leaps into his own reflection."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "Of the stories contained in this volume, two ('The bath' and 'Spores') were written in Japanese, and the rest in German"--Translator's note
Table of contents: title: The bath; title: Where Europe begins. The reflection ; Spores ; Canned foreign ; The talisman ; Raisin eyes ; Storytellers without souls ; Tongue dance ; Where Europe begins; title: A guest