Oyamada Hiroko: Tvornica

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Author: Oyamada Hiroko

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Author: Oyamada Hiroko
Publisher: Sandorf
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Condition: Nova knjiga
Code: 80809

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Tvornica

Oyamada Hiroko

Summary

Hiroko Oyamada: The Factory
(translated by Jana Smrekar)

"The Factory" is an award-winning novel by one of the most interesting contemporary Japanese writers. The novel follows three workers in a large industrial plant. Everyone is extremely dedicated to their work: one is cutting paper, another is correcting correspondence, and the third is studying the moss that grows all over the large facility. But their lives are slowly being taken over by their work - the days take on an apparent logic and flow, and they lose the boundaries of reality, little by little: where does the factory end and the rest of the world begins? What is happening there with the unusual animals? After some time - perhaps only weeks or perhaps years have passed, three female workers begin a struggle with the fundamental question: what am I doing here?

With hints of Kafkaesque poetics and flashes of black humor, 'Factory' paints a clear and sometimes surreal portrait of the absurdity and meaninglessness of modern employment.

Hiroko Oyamada was born in Hiroshima and stayed there during her education, to In 2006, she graduated in Japanese literature at the University of Hiroshima. After graduating, Oyamada changed jobs three times in five years, including a time working in a large factory that produced cars; an experience that inspired her debut story Kōjō (Factory), which won the 42nd Shincho Award for New Writers in 2010.

In 2013, Oyamada won the 30th Oda Sakunosuke Award for a collection of short stories featuring Kōjō as the title story. Later that year, Oyamada's novel Ana (The Hole), about a woman who falls into a hole, was published in the literary magazine Shinchō, and she received the 150th prestigious Akutagawa Prize for it.

Oyamada cited Franz Kafka and Mario Vargas Llosa as literary influences. He lives in Hiroshima with his wife and daughter.

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