Kabukimonogatari - Dandy Tale
Verlag | Penguin US |
Alter | 5 - 11 Jahre |
Auflage | 2018 |
Seiten | 322 |
Format | 14,1 x 19,3 x 2,0 cm |
Gewicht | 307 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
Reihe | Monogatari 9 |
Übersetzer | Daniel Joseph |
ISBN-10 | 1945054840 |
EAN | 9781945054846 |
Bestell-Nr | 94505484UA |
How far does one go to help a lost child? In the case of returning narrator Araragi, the answer is too far, across the veil of time. Dutifully (if unknowingly) following up on Hachikuji s cheeky foreshadowing, he concerns himself with his young lady friend and her fate in this installment of the cult-hit series, heroically unable, once again, to find his own way home.
Thus the tale is also, or more so, about the journey itself, the dark honeymoon of a trip he takes into the past with the dweller in his shadow, Shinobu. Even among a cast that routinely disrespects chronology with their meta-commentary, she takes the cake, or the donut, by rewinding the clock for a perverse road movie, one that by and large goes nowhere, spatially.
It s Kabuki not as in the theater, but with the character for tilt as in a slanted attitude toward the world, the posture of a bohemian. Or, perhaps, of a legendary vampire who once sought death, and of a high school senior who once tuned out life doing their dandy best to attend to an embarrassing wealth of aberrations in a provincial town.