5/13/2023 0 Comments Terminal boredom suzuki![]() Suzuki's work excels, in particular, at the use of unreliable narrators – earnest tellers of tales, initially and sometimes enduringly unaware that they have been duped by the authorities or the System. Translator Daniel Joseph has characterized Suzuki's work as "a kind of SF version of kitchen-sink realism, told from the perspective of the one stuck doing the dishes." In that regard, it draws heavily on the sort of radical 1970s thinking typified by Shulamith Firestone, whose The Dialectic of Sex: A Case for Feminist Revolution ( 1972 nonfiction trans Hiroko Kobayashi as Sei no Benshōhō – josei kaihō kakumei no baai, 1972) similarly interrogates the impact, or lack thereof, of Technology on gender roles and other elements of human society. ![]() Her husband, the saxophonist Kaoru Abe, died of a drug overdose in 1978, after which Suzuki threw herself into an incandescent creative streak, ending with her Suicide a decade later. ![]() ![]() Moving to Tokyo in 1970, she moonlighted as a bar hostess, nude model and actress under the name Naomi Asaka or Naomi Senkō. ![]() (1949-1986) Japanese author who, at the beginning of her troubled career, quit her teenage job as a key-punch operator after a Fanzine story gained an honourable mention in a competition run by the literary magazine Shōsetsu Gendai. ![]()
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