![]() ![]() Hosaka was born 1956 within the same decade as two better-known Japanese authors: Haruki Murakami ( IQ84 and Kafka on the Shore) and Ryu Murakami ( Almost Transparent Blue and Coin Locker Babies). They are, after all, an “in between” generation. None of the characters is particularly rebellious, though perhaps the more eccentric ones, like the jobless and outwardly childish Akira, think of themselves as rebels. Hosaka’s characters are like ghosts they are never quite fully fleshed out and remain incomplete – an eerie transience, in a sense trapped in the plight of their generation. They suffer from what you might call premature nostalgia, a Quixotic expectation, an empty yearning for something that doesn’t exist for their generation but was ever-present for generations before. They seem trapped in limbo, on an aimless pursuit while an older generation overtakes them. ![]() Kazuchi Hosaka’s first novel Plainsong is full of characters who read like Japanese versions of Bret Easton Ellis’s narcissistic, directionless young Americans. The In-Between Generation A Review of Kazushi Hosaka’s Novel Plainsong By Brianna Berbenuik ![]()
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