The Seventh Official Circle is Hesitant
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Ono Machiko, a girl with curly red hair, lives with her eldest brother who studies schizophrenia, her second brother who studies moss love, and her cousin who is passionate about singing operas. While taking care of their daily lives, she wants to write poems that transcend the five and sixth senses and touch the world of the seventh sense. The stench of fertilizers and the out-of-tune music of the piano at home intertwine, stimulating people's nerves; the residents all have weird personalities, and they harbor unrequited love that they are ashamed to express... This book is the first time that Ozaki Sui's works have been published together in China. It collects five of his representative short stories, including the prestigious "The Seventh Official World Wandering" and the highly praised "Miss Cricket". The protagonists in the five novels are like multiple clones of the same girl scattered in the mirror, sometimes peering into the human world with compound eyes, sometimes using measuring cups to prepare the antidote for the heart. Between the comical and absurd scenery changes, and between the romantic and light dreams, the hard background of reality flashes past. Ozaki Sui, a female writer who was active in Japan from the Taisho to the early Showa era, attracted the attention of many literary giants such as Kawabata Yasunari and Dazai Osamu for her unfettered free style of writing and fantasy-like beautiful words. Literary critic Hanada Kiyote was unforgettable and highly praised her works. However, Ozaki Tsui returned home due to illness at the age of thirty-six, and then fell silent for half his life, appearing only briefly in the Japanese literary world. This forgotten genius writer has re-entered the public eye in recent years. With his surreal writing style and avant-garde expression techniques, he has won a large number of readers in the contemporary era and is known as a representative figure of the fantasy literature school.
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