2019年3月のバックナンバー

2019.3.29

Premonitions of Works Where Souls Reverberate
—The Resonance of Literature and Music in "Encounter of Souls Crossing Borders" an Event to Commemorate the Japan Foundation Awards 2018

To live in language is to keep flowing, as far as the stream will take you. In her acceptance speech for the Japan Foundation Award 2018, the writer and poet Yoko Tawada alluded to the quiet creativity of such a life in words. Singling out the Chinese character 流for "flow," she connected it to her own work and—as in the title of her most recent novel—that of other writers who are "scattered over the earth." As an astounding amount of information circles the globe at lightning speed, the flow of words, like a hidden stream, crosses all borders to seep into people's hearts, producing, as a sort of residue, literary works that contain a wide variety of elements, but that all have one—breath—in common.

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