Wakareru Riyu 6 (P+D)

[Machine Translation] As if the previous volume had depicted a scene in which the main character Eizo Maeda and the author of "Reason for Breaking Up" talked endlessly over the phone, the scene suddenly shifts to a party attended by the author. There, Eizo, as well as other actual novelists and critics such as Shizuo Fujieda, Yukito Emiya, and Minako Ohba, engage in a rambling conversation about love, sex, literature, philosophy, and other topics. The editor-in-chief of the serialized magazine "Gunzo" urges the author to move the story forward quickly, and the story reaches its climax with the appearance of a character (Mori Atsushi) who is the author of "Gassan". This is the final publication of Nobuo Kojima's "The Great Work of Persistence," which won the 38th Japan Art Academy Prize and the 35th Noma Literary Award.

前巻で、主人公・前田永造と『別れる理由』の作者が電話で延々と語り合うシーンが描かれたかと思えば、場面は急に作者が出席したパーティ会場に移る。そこには永造のほか、藤枝静男、柄谷行人、大庭みな子といった実在する小説家、評論家たちがおり、愛と性、文学、哲学などについてのとりとめもない会話が展開される。挙げ句、連載されていた雑誌「群像」の編集長が作者に話を早く進めるよう促すなか、「『月山』の作者」という人物(森敦)が登場し、物語はいよいよクライマックスへ。第38回日本芸術院賞、第35回野間文芸賞を受賞した小島信夫“執念の大作”最終刊。