Magic Realism in Japanese Literature: Hiromi Kawakami’s Record of a Dream
It is this uncanny feeling, of trying to map the unseen, what’s at the centre of Hiromi Kawakami’s writing: stories that warp and give way to gods and shape-shifting creatures; scenarios that quickly melt and leave us facing new dimensions, where the unfamiliar becomes a poetic expression of the more abstract aspects of the mundane.