Oct 8, 2023
Mild Vertigo and (another) mate. I love Kanai Mieko beyond words. Like Agnes Varda, she makes the mundane seem full of possibility without being either sentimental or overly literary (I wish I could say the same of Zambreno’s endnotes).
I think my favourite of hers is still Indian Summer (pardon my language), translated by hard-working academic Aoyama Tomoko, but I can only hope that this highbrow translation means more translations are to come!!