10-22-2018, 03:50 PM
Translated from Japanese. It's about a poet who writes a poem that alters reality, and you can get addicted to it. Part takes place in the 1940s, with cameos by Andre Breton and Duchamp, part in contemporary times (of the book anyway) in Japan, where special police are looking for the poem, and part in the future. It was good, with a nice twist at the end, but not really a page turner; it dragged in parts. And the style is not fluid; very short paragraphs, often one sentence long. Long foreword and afterword by academics, but I skipped those. I imagine he was inspired by Post-Modernist ideas that everything is text.
the hands that guide me are invisible