Description
Step into a luminous series of dreamlike tales where geography becomes language and identity is constantly retranslated. Across Japan, Siberia, Russia, and Germany, characters and narrators drift through encounters with a ghostly remnant, a Trans-Siberian traveler, a mechanical doll, a speaking tongue, and a monk who leaps into his own reflection—each story turning the familiar into something newly strange. With Tawada’s signature inventive, boundary-crossing style, the book explores how bewilderment and estrangement can open unexpected joy, revealing “Hilaritas” as a force that makes even dislocation feel alive. Part travelogue, part linguistic fable, this collection invites readers to become foreigners alongside its figures, discovering Europe—and the self—at the moment meaning begins to shift.
Available Editions
paperback
New Directions Publishing
Published May 29, 2014
228 pages
ISBN: 9780811223515
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Details
First Published
1991
Language
eng
Translation
From: jpn
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Where Europe Begins by Yoko Tawada.