Ofuku Shokan "Toku Kara No Koe Kotoba No Kizashi" (Kodansha Bungei Bunko)

[Machine Translation] In "Voices from Far Away," two writers discussed literature and the end of the 20th century through letters between Oslo, Sendai, and Tokyo from 1997 to 1999. Twelve years later, in the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake, the two writers, one questioning the power of words from their very foundations, the other tracing the memory of the war and touching on the phases of history and narrative, came together again on paper to erect the world of "Signs of Words". A collection of letters that could be described as magical.

一九九七年から九九年にかけて二人の作家が、オスロ/仙台～東京間で、二十世紀末という時代と文学について手紙を介して語り合った『遠くからの声』。その十二年後、東日本大震災に遭遇して言葉の力を根底から問う者、戦災の記憶をたぐり歴史と語りの相にふれる者として、再び紙上で相見えて世界を建立する『言葉の兆し』。魔術的とさえいえる書簡集。