Mud Stuck to our Shoes: On The Insistence of Harm by Fernando Valverde, Edward Derby [20] Writing for The New York Times, Weike Wang praised Motoya's stories, noting that Motoya "wins over her audience by pushing the absurd to extremes". the Akutagawa Prize, for An Exotic Marriage in 2016. But something else is at work, too: throughout the collection, and especially in stories like Typhoon, Straw Husband, and The Dogs. I dont remember where I read it. . An insidious exchange of traits and gender stereotypes unfolds and the boundaries between the two characters become porous. Similarly the illustrative quotes chosen here are merely those the complete review subjectively believes represent the tenor and judgment of the review as a whole. And they eat and they eat at exactly the same speed, until theyre just two heads making a ball, and then they both get eaten up and disappear. Fun and funny . Motoyas prose is earnest and casual, as if the writer is trying to convince a friend of a persistent but invisible pest. Weight: 196 g. Dimensions: 196 x 126 x 26 mm. Do you know the story of the snake ball? I thought. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Both women, at the service of their partners desires, are reshaped by othersan easy way to become a stranger to yourself in Motoyas world. He currently lives in Washington, DC. Yukiko Motoya is a writer, playwright, and stage director. Thats the image I have of marriagethat both me and the other person, as we are now, will disappear before we can do anything about it. On Places Ive Taken My Body by Molly McCully Brown, Art Edwards At the end of a story with an aesthetic solution, the narrative action is suspendedrather than resolvedand the author leaves the audience with a natural image that resists interpretation. Motoya is restless among the halls of convention; she appreciates the classic elements of short stories, but is eager to deface them with a brightly colored Sharpie. But I guess that cant be right. Histeeth must have been in their right place, because they made achamping sound as he chewed. Yukiko Motoya ( , Motoya Yukiko, born July 14, 1979) is a Japanese novelist, playwright, theatre director, and former voice actress.She has won numerous Japanese literary and dramatic awards, including the Akutagawa Prize, the Noma Literary New Face Prize, the Mishima Yukio Prize, the Kenzaburo Oe Prize, the Kishida Kunio Drama Award, and the Tsuruya Nanboku Drama Award. There is something pareidolic about the writing process. Some changes render you, paradoxically, more yourself. The option to explode a life or a story greatly appeals to her. On A Whole World: Letters from James Merrill, Nicholas Bredie Why dont you try a different game? Id ask, but hedonly say, I like this one.. In The Women, a man is forced to kill his own fantasies after they come to life and challenge him to a duel. I heard a tinkling sound like coins dropping into a piggy bank, which Id been hearing constantly all evening. Soft Skull Press. By signing up, you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. New York, NY: Soft Skull Press, 2018. the Akutagawa Prize, for An Exotic Marriage in 2016. At the story's beginning, he seems like a . The titular bodybuilder lives what seems to be a structured, self-contained life (I decide who I am, and never consider other possibilities); bodybuilding is an exciting new discovery that expands her world. It settled to the floor in countless small clumps. Freed, he turns into a mountain peony. They confront their stifled independence: velleities give way to keen yearnings, desires twist toward violence. As the strangeness mounts, San observes her identity as something willed and imposed. Each of these titles represents an energizing alternative to the ripped-apart illogic of our contemporary reality. [30], In 2013 Motoya married the poet, lyricist and film director Kite Okachimachi. This is a game where you collect money?. In I Called You by Name, a woman in a business meeting is plagued by the certainty that only she can see a figure lurking in the shadows. Every time I noticed myself acting as though that was who Id been all along, a chill went up my spine, she confesses. Longenbachs Forever, Noah Warren Youd just gotten braces, and you said the metal hurt and you couldnt eat anything. Facial features intermittently disassemble, prompting Sans panic. The positioning of his features was deteriorating faster thanever. Even as The Lonesome Bodybuilder approaches its conclusion, new and winding pathways unfurl. She endures this at first but later partakes in it, finding herself pulled into her husbands orbithis daily consumption of variety shows and deep-fried food. Is that the problem? I asked. Then I felt skinslacken, and bodies start to yield, and then I could no longer tellwhose sensations I was feeling. Motoya wards off fatigue by peppering this buffet of patriarchal cruelty with humorsurprising enough and sharp enough to elicit as many belly laughs as grimaces while reading. The narrator, reasoning that she must be lonely, what with her entire family having been killed by an evil gang, asks her out, only to find that his new girlfriend is psychotic and in love with her dad. The zelkovas planted in a clump justbeyond the railing were overgrown with green leaves that lookedlike a neglected hairdo. Her husband, who bears the brunt of these jabs, deserves it all (and more). Her novel Funuke domo kanashimi no ai o misero (Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers!) Blurring the Obvious: Bluebeards First Wife by Ha Seong-Nan, Christopher R. Vaughan After moving to Tokyo to study drama, she started the Motoya Yukiko Theater Company, whose plays she wrote and directed. Perhaps the most resonant stories are those about marriage; Motoya (a playwright as well as an author) excels in putting husband and wife through unusual trials. (That may be an additional appeal of the gym: in a precarious world, a weight lifter looks exactly like what she is.) Take whatever form you want to be! The distending body of my husband exploded with a loud pop. Even when she poses in front of him in a micro bikini, her hair now short, her body filled out and covered in tanning oil, he asks: Whats that? For the first time in months, his hand crept into my bed, undermy comforter. The stories consider how it feels to take other people into account, to be forever calibrating your own words and actions in relation to those nearby. Asa Yoneda, the books translator, has signal-boosted a story collection whose off-kilter style strenuously upholds Motoyas stated mission. [6][7], In 2002, prompted by a magazine editor's invitation, Motoya made her fiction debut with the short story Eriko to zettai (Eriko and Absolutely). His misperception becomes literal: he cant grasp whats right in front of him. My body was startingto coil, and I tried to stop thinking by closing my eyes even more tightly. The 11 stories in the collection follow individuals who lift the curtains of their orderly homes and workplaces, are confronted with the bizarre, the grotesque, and the alien, and are ultimately led to liberation. Youre accommodating, San, and before you know itshe breaks off, as Sans features rearrange themselves to mirror her partners. Id expected marriage to be an even more constricting flowerpot than my previous relationships. In "An Exotic Marriage," the collection's centerpiece, the narrator, Sen, marries a man who refuses to engage with the world. They may feel separated from others, but they also feel separated from themselves. [27][28] Starting in 2014 she was a regular host for Season 4 of the TBS Radio program "The Top 5". At face value, the stories are fun and funny to read, but weightier questions lurk below the surface. Its also the collections penultimate entry. and then the short story "The Exotic Marriage" is a whopping eighty five pages long. Asa Yoneda. This is abundantly illustrated in An Exotic Marriage, a novella about a woman, San, who begins to fear that her husbands identity is blending with her own. Her stories are about relationships between men and womenseemingly familiar territory, but made strange by the intrusion of surreal elements. At first, The Lonesome Bodybuilder appears most interested in chills and moods; I needed time for its feminism and its political threads to catch the light. On Painting Time by Maylis de Kerangal, Lisa Hiton . By now, I was like the ghost of a snakethat had already been eaten up by many other snakes, and Id lostmy own body long before getting swallowed up by my husband. [1] As a child she read mystery stories by Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Edogawa Ranpo, as well as horror manga. For instance, in Fitting Room, a boutique employee, faced with a customer who wont leave the changing room, remembers that the fitting rooms were moveable, on wheels. Motoya wastes no time: the employee wheels the fitting room and customer out of the shop. Maybe I dont really know, myself. Motoyas emphases include tedious relationships, workplace gender dynamics, and the soporific entertainments and culinary distractions of our modern age. After moving to Tokyo to study drama, she started the Motoya Yukiko Theater Company, whose plays she wrote and directed. Most of the central characters are female, with many of the stories strongly influenced by the relationships -- both intimate and more casual and distant -- they are involved in. The Aesthetics of Cosmic Feminism: A Review of Magda Crnecis FEM, Katherine M. Hedeen But in a world that both values men and teaches men to value themselves so much more highly than their partners, any partnership seems doomed to disappoint. . In the title story, a husband watches a boxing match and asks his wife what she thinks of his body. She becomes the bulge in the curtain, the shadow on the other side of the glassthe strange one. [31] Her first daughter was born in October 2015.[32]. Motoyas women exist most vividly in their own heads, a state of being that often leaves them feeling alone in a crowd. On Stardust Media by Christina Pugh, Jehanne Dubrow There was no response. Walker Rutter-Bowman received his MFA from Syracuse University. by Michael Heller and James Salzman, Zach Savich Even the missteps attest to Motoyas fictive mandate: to be unburdened by rules and restraints. We have to accept that were responsible for the physical effects theyre experiencing! a man yells, as the narrators girlfriends lips produce their own lipstick; the narrator tearfully euthanizes her. In The Women, a citys female population contracts a virus that turns them into homicidal hotties. When you buy a book using a link on this page, we receive a commission. I sat down on the couch and looked at the iPad screen. . . Readers who are familiar with Japanese folklore, manga, or anime will probably find some of the themes to be mundane - there is much reminiscent of Rumiko Takahashi in the more fantastic stories, like The Dogs or An Exotic Marriage. But she doesnt want the menshe wants the muscles. On The Water Statues by Fleur Jaeggy, Peter Campion Her books have . The books 11 tales are, in one way or another, about the fettering of freedom. $16.95. Instead of responding, I looked down and nibbled a slice of pear. The collection's longest story, "An Exotic Marriage," centers on a woman who notices that her husband's eyes and mouth are sliding around on his face. Motoya Yukiko, general information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author. On The Nightfields by Joanna Klink, Patrick Davis What are you doing on there? I peered over his shoulder. The women in these stories find themselves with bad mennot malicious or violent, but complacent, uninteresting, and undeserving of their partners. On Exclusions by Noah Falck, Jim Johnstone I was secretly impressed by Hakones story. Snake ball, huh? I poked at a piece of grilled eel laid on the rice, and pictured a bright white ball covered in scales. Each story begins unsuspectingly a clerk helps a woman in a changing room, a wife decides to go to the gym and, from these seemingly realistic setups, the magical and the surreal unfold. Her husbands features are always shifting on his face, and soon he resembles, variously, a monster, a snake, a new creature, his wife, and then, finally, a mountain peony. That only made the boundary between the skin of ourentwined bodies even hazier. Motoya sets a scene involving several hundred couples engaged in a melee defying all imagining by inventorying the screams, the clash of weapons, men begging for their lives from lovers who seemed beyond language, belated confessions of love The story concludes in a tragedy, but its later reversed by a single line in a different story. In Fitting Room, a saleswoman attends day and night to a mysterious customer who refuses to leave a fitting room. Touch one and see, he said, so I tried pressing on a browndisc with my finger. Hakone hummed and said nothing. The executive who holds her tongue at the meeting also sees, or dreams that she sees, faces in inanimate objects; she suffers from a condition called pareidolia, in which the mind perceives illusory patterns in random stimuli. To get at the deeper themes of strained marriages, traditional gender roles and love, Motoya subverts tropes and allows her characters to inhabit bizarre and metaphorical trajectories. The fact that I couldnt stop, even if Itried, was proof that it wasnt actually a matter of anything as benign as acting or pretending. "Why I Can No Longer Look at a Picnic Blanket Without Laughing", trans. Then you collect those, so you can bank money again. Didnt you say his ex-wife wasreally good-looking?, Really good-looking. . . Motoya likes her fiction to swerve, not drift or meander, and she doesnt have patience for wandering. . () By the first few sentences of, "Like soap bubbles, several of these stories catch your eye, but the instant they are gone you forget about them. Wed found a table in the seating area of the department stores food hall. Reverberations and Divinations in Kazim Alis The Voice of Sheila Chandra, Peter Campion As a leashed man miserably admits, just before being yanked to mortal combat, This is all because of the desires of men like us. Such a desire, for a more exciting lover, has exciting effects: the women demand duels, then take their husbands and boyfriends down by the river to kill them. (Several tales allude to Kwaidan, a ghoulish anthology compiled by the folklorist Lafcadio Hearn, in 1904.). A pulsing sense of anxiety pushes the story forward as readers are left to reconcile her male staffs tepid ignorance with her panicked interior monologue. On The Atmospherians by Alex McElroy, Asa Drake To Motoya, complacency is not only a violation of selfhood but also of fiction. In The Straw Husband, the narrators husband is just that, straw, but his composition is less concerning than his inordinate devotion to his car. I think?. Oh, those, my husband said, turning his shoulders towardme. Previously, her translated stories have appeared in GRANTA and CATAPULT . By the first few sentences of The Lonesome Bodybuilder, you know you're hearing the voice of a remarkable writer; by the end of "An Exotic Marriage," you're certain that Yukiko Motoya's shivery, murmuring voice will never completely leave you." --Financial Times "Motoya [has a] gift for making the ordinary magical." --Jane Ciabattari, BBC Culture The pears?. . Marie Mockett takes umbrage, in her excellent Lit Hub essay Our Fairy Tales, Ourselves, with critics and philosophers whose pursuit of universal laws of narrative structure blind them to the expansive possibilities of literature. And so it is throughout: all these husbands are brutally banal in their ignorance, their apathies, and their cruelties. Uwano recommended this game, my husband said at last. New Worlds Forever Measured by the Old: On Burning Province by Michael Prior, Katherine M. Hedeen The writing itself is to be admired. Motoyas characters suffer from a deeper affliction than alienation; theyre often lost in relationships and attempting to carve out identities amid ambivalence. "An Exotic Marriage," a Kafkaesque depiction that shows how even those closest to us can wind up completely alien in the end, a disturbing sentiment that is also reflected in the final story, "The Straw Husband." There is a bit of twisted, violent dystopia in "Paprika Jiro" and anime-flavored . "The Reason I Carry Biscuits to Offer to Young Boys", trans. Lingerie? Back to the gym she goes. The climate crisis demands a form of literary expression that lifts it out of the realm of intellectual knowing and lodges it deep in readers bodies. The World Owes You Nothing: A Review of Mine! You should be careful, her neighbor tells her. Her books have been published or are forthcoming in French, Norwegian, Spanish, and Chinese, . She is typical of Motoyas women: conferring an excess of personhood on whomever or whatever is at hand, yearning to connect to something that isnt there. [15], In 2016, on her fourth nomination, Motoya won the 154th Akutagawa Prize for her story Irui konin tan (Tales of Marriage to a Different Sort), in which a wife discovers that she and her husband look more and more alike as they grow older together. "Life's not worth living if you're not tending to the whims and demands of a high-maintenance lover!". The Lonesome Bodybuilder by Yukiko Motoya / Soft Skull Press / 224 pages / 978-1593766788 / 2018. [8], Motoya's novel Ikiteru dake de ai (Love at Least), about an unemployed and apparently depressed woman's relationship with her boyfriend, was published in 2006 by Shinchosha. Soft Skull Press. In the collection's longest and scariest story, "An Exotic Marriage," Motoya, through her narrator, lands a flurry of punches against the oppressive domesticity . Authenticity is a reclamation project, and her characters go to great lengths to prove their agency. [4] From 2005 to 2006 Motoya was the Friday host for Nippon Broadcasting System's late night radio show All Night Nippon. 'These arresting, hyper-real stories linger in the imagination . Only when you begin reading, when the . I recalled seeing a circular in the mailroomabout plans to prune the plantings. The protagonist in the title story grows fond of combat sports and wonders why this didnt occur much earlier. The story ends on a note of limitlessness: Anything at all could turn out to be something beyond my wildest dreams.. All rights reserved. Do you remember, on our honeymoon, how I chewed up allthe fruit for you so you could eat it?, Sure. Anyone can read what you share. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. Each time I looked at my husband lying on the couch, I had the strange impression I was living with a new kind of organism that would die if it exerted itself in any way. Used with permission of Soft Skull Press. Arent you going to have any? the husband-like thing said. She won the Noma Prize for New Writers for Warm Poison in 2011; the Kenzaburo Oe Prize for Picnic in the Storm in 2013; the Mishima Prize for How She Learned to Love Herself in 2014; and Japan's most prestigious literary prize, the Akutagawa Prize, for An Exotic Marriage in 2016. Poems That Linger: Peter Campions One Summer Evening at the Falls, Johannes Gransson The Lonesome Bodybuilder Thank you for supporting The Atlantic. This is abundantly illustrated in "An Exotic Marriage," a novella about a woman, San, who begins to fear that her husband's identity is blending with her own. No, I said. by THE LONESOME BODYBUILDER By Yukiko Motoya Translated by Asa Yoneda 224 pp. Eventually, Id start to feel in danger of root rot, and would hurriedly break the pot and uproot myself. In Yukiko Motoyas delightful new story collection, the familiar becomes unfamiliar. Any reader pursuing concrete examples of nimble writing and unconventional resolutions could do a hell of a lot worse than Yukiko Motoyas The Lonesome Bodybuilder, a collection of short stories that mangle and deform the familiar until it becomes something both wildly unexpected and deeply welcome. "In Yukiko Motoya's delightful new story collection, the familiar becomes unfamiliar . 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Motoya wards off fatigue by peppering this buffet of patriarchal cruelty with humorsurprising enough and sharp enough to elicit as many belly laughs as grimaces while reading. Yukiko Motoya ( , Motoya Yukiko, born July 14, 1979) is a Japanese novelist, playwright, theatre director, and former voice actress. How could he even see straight? By Yukiko Motoya. [29] As of 2017 she is co-host of the Fuji TV documentary series 7 Rules. His face was barely maintaining a form that could even berecognized as human. The Grandfather of New Nature Writing Was a Bird-Loving Poet. But Motoya's unique vision is still worth experiencing, and Yoneda's translation provides a clear and beautiful . Motoya locates a venerable sense of ancestry and inherited duty in the storys young market trader. Hakone, are youand Senta thinking about getting married yet? I asked, getting a light blouse out of my bag. Okay, I heard a muffled voice say. 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