“On Ise’s ship. Literary journey through Japan» by Suso Mourelo

Mokuso presents the review of a new audio book in Reporte Asia, this time «In Ise’s boat. Literary journey through Japan» by Suso Mourelo and narrated by Aníbal Soto.

Suso Mourelo travels Japan with a literary compass. From large cities to quiet rural enclaves, the goal is to discover the places where the novels of his favorite authors took place: the Tokyo of the cursed writer Osamu Dazai or the small island of Kamishima that served as inspiration for Yukio Mishima; the Kyoto of Junichirô Tanizaki’s fetish stories or the mountain refuge in which Yasunari Kawabata set Country of Snow. Together with them we look at other authors such as Masuji Ibuse, Natsume Sôseki or Ueda Akinari, and we travel to the pages of classics such as Chikamatsu Monzaemon or authors such as Takasue no musume or Murasaki Shikibu.

“Zero Spaces. House/Dwelling, City, Territory and Time» by Bernardo Ynzenga

A story intertwined with other fictions where Japanese writers of all time appear and some of the Europeans who succumbed to the Japanese spell such as Lafcadio Hearn or Nicolas Bouvier.

From big cities to quiet rural enclaves, the goal is to discover the places where the novels of your favorite authors took place

With the reference of this literary universe, the author wanders around the country, while conversing with its people, living in the privacy of their homes and inquiring about the circumstances of a society that is undergoing an amazing mutation. Suso Mourelo composes a story that, like a long haiku, guides us through literary memory through sensations and images of the present.

Engraving in Iberian Spanish (Spain).

Link to get the book