Author: At 13, Yoko Ogawa read ' The Diary of Anne Frank '. She discovered that ordinary words, daily carry with them an incredible force for liberation.With this book , she met the words and the cruelty of the Holocaust orHiroshima . Since then, she writes books sensual and menacing, slow explosions where initiation to sexuality, death, the sacred is ritualized in the confrontation. Remarked upon his first novel , for which she won in 1988 the price Kaien, Yoko Ogawa's fame keeps growing, and in 1991 she won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for ' Pregnancy '. In French, many of its texts are available at Actes Sud , including " Scent of ice 'or' crystallization secret '.Writer of transgression calm, the attraction for water and dreams, the fascination with physical and mental abnormalities, Yoko Ogawa writes in a quiet and likes to learn how to sculpt a nothing of stories of people in the manner of Paul Auster , Kawabata or Murakami . In 2007, two new collectionsof his new ' The Eye 'and' The Unexpected Blessing 'find their way to the stalls of booksellers. Thanks to a prolific work and rich, Yoko Ogawa has become one of the most highly regarded contemporary novelists.
History: Ruriko is calligrapher. Fleeing the burning of her husband's infidelities, she moved alone in the mountains, the cottage of his parents.She meets Nitta , pianist converted in the manufacture of harpsichords, now unable to play in the presence of others. Beside him is Kaoru , his young assistant also a musician and a deaf old dog. One stormy night, sent by theinnkeeper , Kaoru goes to the cottage of the new arrival to bring her candles.
Impressions: Yoko Ogawa is an author that I discovered some time ago thanks to the small bookshop in Biarritz (Naked Lunch) where I go as regularly as possible ...
Since she became one of my favorite authors ...
Like all his books, writing is a very fine, fair and always feminine. There is just enough mystery and fantasy to give his stories (a little sad I must admit) a nice dreamlike quality.
A book for women, men are far too unbalanced to be part of the dream!
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