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Experimental novelist Todd Shimoda: seeking mono no aware in and with literary art
Notebook on Cities and Culture
English - June 10, 2010 15:25 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 124 ratingsPlaces & Travel Society & Culture Arts comedy business entrepreneurship interview culture news music finance fitness design Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Colin Marshall talks to novelist Todd Shimoda, author of 365 Views of Mt. Fuji, The Fourth Treasure and now Oh!: A Mystery of Mono No Aware.
Shimoda calls his stories “somewhat experimental, post-modernish,
dealing with Asian or Asian-American themes to some degree, but also
broad questions of existence,” or “philosophical mysteries.” His latest novel documents an embodies a search for the elusive Japanese literary concept of mono no aware.
Persons/places/works/sites referenced in this interview, in the order mentioned
Todd and L.J.C. Shimoda's web site, Shimodaworks
Todd Shimoda's novels: 365 Views of Mt. Fuji: Algorithms of the Floating World, The Fourth Treasure and Oh!: A mystery of 'mono no aware'
The literary concept of mono no aware
Novelist Yukio Mishima (1925-1970)
Novelist Kobo Abe (1924-1993)
Novelist Albert Camus (1913-1960)
Albert Camus' The Stranger (Everyman's Library)
The Japanese concept of ikigai, or the worth of living
Chin Music Press
Kobo Abe's The Ruined Map: A Novel
An excerpt of Todd Shimoda's Ruined Map sequel-in-progess, Why Ghosts Appear