Boat to Kagami

[Machine Translation] Boat" My father is diagnosed with terminal cancer and wishes to have euthanasia, but this is not possible in modern Japan, so he spends the rest of his days in a hospice. He spends his remaining days in a hospice, where he encounters a Dutch woman for whom euthanasia is legal, and he also considers new sports as an alternative to war. Mirror" F -15 The pilot's monologue, interspersed with episodes about a tiger's escape and a Velazquez painting he saw at a museum on his trip, unravels and dissipates at the moment they seem to intertwine, and then come together again, then recoil. Rejecting the arbitrary linkage of episodes, this medium-length work follows consciousness as it flows. When the two different stories come together in one volume, the carefully prepared author's intention transcends time and space, and a whole new way of reading the story is erected! What is the truth of the novel? An abyss of stories that allow for many layers of in-depth reading!

「ボート」末期癌の宣告を受けた父は、安楽死を望むものの、現代日本ではそれが叶えられず、残された日々をホスピスで過ごす。安楽死が合法なオランダの女性との出会い、戦争の代わりとなる新しいスポーツなど、病床で死を待つ父が考えたこととは―。「鏡」F‐15パイロットの独白は、虎の脱走事件や、旅先の美術館でみたベラスケスの絵画などの挿話を交えながら、絡み合いそうになる瞬間にほどけて霧散し、また寄り集まっては反発する。エピソードの恣意的な連関を拒絶し、流れのままに意識を追う中編。二つの異なる物語が一冊となったとき、周到に準備された作家の意図が時空を越えて発動し、まったく新しい物語の読み方を建ち上がらせる!小説の真実とは、一体どこにあるのか?幾重にも深読みを許容する物語の深淵!