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From: The Village Voice
Date: 20040512
Author:Park, Ed
SAYONARA, GANGSTERS By GenichiroTakahashi Translated by Michael Emmerich Vertical, 311 pp. $19-95 TATTOO YOU
Braut fishing in Japan:Takahashi unfair to Aristophanes!
"Perhaps, when we are very old, people will write 'Brautigans,' just as we now write novels," wrote Lew Welch in the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner back in 1968. Haruki Murakami's work occasionally captures something of Richard Brautigan's melancholy whimsy (and penchant for mind-melting, hit-or-miss metaphors), but the late American writer seemed to be the only one who could convincingly write Brautigans. Until now: ...
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