The Housekeeper and the Professor, by Yoko Ogawa

A housekeeper and a professor are written by Yoko Yoshikawa, a novel published in 2003. This story is about mathematicians who are professors of the story. The professor suffered a brain injury after a tragic car accident, and he was only able to create a memory of only 80 minutes. The professor forgot his previous life, but he only remembered his numbers because he had a passion for mathematics. This story is spoken from the viewpoint of the narrator (house keeper). The narrator takes care of the professor who asked her son to enter the house directly after knowing that he has a ten-year-old son late at night.

My longstanding dissatisfaction with so-called literary novels is that most probably create few mathematicians and scientists, as most writers do little know about these two areas. (A pleasant exception: Catherine Chung is a forgotten nation, a butler, a professor of Yoko Ogawa, Guet Symmetries by Jeanette Winterson) Peter Ho Davies praises it as "revelation - hopeless, distorted and painful , But always change it to be realistic. "

Yoko Ogawa 's "diving pool" three perfect novels have resulted in a dull and disturbing effect of ghost stories without ghosts. This is a universe composed of the universe that can not be implicitly explained. Teenage girls became crazy about foster brothers, divers, women recorded their sister's pregnancy details in the diary and another woman returned to the university dormitory. A man with feet is running. It is not flashy. Ogawa's words are very accurate (even in Japanese translation) so it seems that every sentence conveys both the meaning of itself and all the black things that can not be judged by words.

I want to explore the new type of Japanese literature apart from Mishima. Yoko Yoshikawa is a Japanese female writer who is thoroughly considering the thought of the character. I am currently reading her book Iris Bar, and so far, I feel that you are very strong about these characters. The protagonist of the story is a young girl working at a mother's hotel. This girl is said to be very beautiful and a perfect image of how a young girl should look like. I hate her. She had a strong passion for older men who had severe sexual orientation soon. This book has the theme of sexuality and degeneracy, and incorporates it into the everyday conservative Japanese lifestyle. It is interesting to analyze this from the perspective of feminism and to see how the cultural foundation functions.