There is Japan, and then there is Japan. Follow the author from his first early morning glimpse of Mount Fuji to the deepening realisation that even our most familiar and cherished notions can prove to be insubstantial scraps of nothingness. At times earthy, at times philosophical, Japan Dreams is more than a zenlike meditation on life. It is a highspeed crisscrossing of the landscape both geographical and social, a discourse on ways of seeing, and a surprisingly personal exploration of the differences between the many worlds we inhabit.From the first editionA traveller comes to Japan and is slowly absorbed into a complex and increasingly unnerving interplay of reality, representation, substitution, the virtual, the artificial, the counterfeit and the unreal. In form, Japan Dreams is loosely modelled on Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon and As I crossed a bridge of dreams by Lady Sarashina, both written c. 1000 AD. The narrative moves between travelogue, meditation, exploration of ideas, discourse on various subjects, dreams, lists, and introspection. Fact and fiction become harder to separate as the story unfolds. What starts as straightforward documentary metamorphoses into chaotic selfabsorption, and the reader is left examining the very same question examined by the narrator is this real? A deeply personal firstperson account, Japan Dreams touches on numerous aspects of Japanese culture arts and heritage, attitudes to time and space, sexuality, language, technology, media,...

Binding: Hardcover;312 pages; Publisher: Litera; Classification: N/A; Weight: 652.06 g; Dimensions: N/A

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