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Article: The Pinch Runner Memorandum.
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- May 15, 1995
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By Kenzaburo Oe. Translated by Michiko N. Wilson and Michael K. Wilson. M.E. Sharpe. 251 pp. $39.95. Paper $17.95.
A New Yorker reviewer recently praised a Generation-X writer of Japan. "In [Banana] Yoshimoto's work, platitudes function, for both the characters and the reader, as a soothing mechanism that links people to one another and to the world." Her language, according to the same reviewer, "drifts regularly into cliche, but Yoshimoto recognizes the power behind these shopworn words--the truths that made them so familiar in the first place. `You know this feeling, don't you?' she seems to say." If this is in any way indicative of today's typical American ...