I thought about death and was gripped by feelings which choked my chest and made my throat dry, a sudden pushing and shoving in my guts. It was a sort of chronic ailment I had. Once that feeling and t...
However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world.
The people of Hiroshima went to work at once to restore human society in the aftermath of the great atomic flood. They were concerned to salvage their own lives, but in the process they also salvaged...
Suddenly he is sighted by a giant phacochoere.
Hiroshima is like a nakedly exposed wound inflicted on all mankind.
… Bird’s waking dream was harsh, the reverse face of the innocent dream that had ushered him into sleep, a thing armored in burrs that inspired anguish. Sleep for Bird was a funnel which he entered th...
They gave the impression of unnaturally halted motion, like film caught in a projector.
More often than not he finds what he is looking for, and it destroys him.
In this age of ours it's hard to say with certainty that having lived was better than not having been born in the first place.
His eyes, filled with tears and his own blood, are already blind to all things in reality, but the colossal chrysanthemum topped with a purple aurora illuminates the darkness behind his closed lids mo...
He grasped at a prescient feeling, akin to the dialectic of dreams, that this reunion could never come to pass, yet somehow--it most definitely would.
Ero fermamente convinto di aver male interpretato quel grido, ma rimaneva il fatto che dentro di me - una massa di carne molle e rilassata che, al piano superiore del kura-yashiki, era intenta a un la...
I’m the one who’d like to send a telegram, AM RATHER IN TROUBLE—but addressed to whom?
Anyway, I wasn’t asleep; if I nap during the day I can never get to sleep at night. I was thinking about the pluralistic universe.
'He's black, you see that! I thought he would be all along.' Harelip's voice trembled with excitement. 'He's a real black man, you see!''What are they going to do with him, shoot him?''Shoot him!' Har...
The cul-de-sac was shaped like a stomach, a stomach with an obstruction in the duodenum.
Probably the sky a hundred yards or so above your head is still nothing more than sky to you. But all that means is that the storehouse happens to be empty at the moment.
It takes a person of great care and insight to watch for any abnormality in the green grass even while it grows abundantly and healthily.
Gradually, as wine turns to vinegar, Bird's consternation turned to fear, aureoles of fear spread around his eyes like deep rings: he felt himself turning into a frightened monocle monkey.
Alla fine notai un variopinto assembramento all'imboccatura del ponte. Un tempo i valligiani si vestivano di scuro, come branchi di sardine, e un gruppo di persone somigliava a un bico; ma gli abiti s...