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non-fiction, high-brow and low-brow, and art and life. One Break,
A Thousand Blows! appears to be a novel about Japan, but the
protagonist is a metaphor, aiming to negate Japan by writing falsely
about it, and using it as a screen for the author's innermost hopes
and desires. The author cannibalizes every book he references, as he
subjects his characters to the occult use of books for divination.
Kim, the grandson of illiterate Korean peasant farmers, is a recent
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non-fiction, high-brow and low-brow, and art and life. One Break,
A Thousand Blows! appears to be a novel about Japan, but the
protagonist is a metaphor, aiming to negate Japan by writing falsely
about it, and using it as a screen for the author's innermost hopes
and desires. The author cannibalizes every book he references, as he
subjects his characters to the occult use of books for divination.
Kim, the grandson of illiterate Korean peasant farmers, is a recent
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non-fiction, high-brow and low-brow, and art and life. One Break,
A Thousand Blows! appears to be a novel about Japan, but the
protagonist is a metaphor, aiming to negate Japan by writing falsely
about it, and using it as a screen for the author's innermost hopes
and desires. The author cannibalizes every book he references, as he
subjects his characters to the occult use of books for divination.
Kim, the grandson of illiterate Korean peasant farmers, is a recent
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A Thousand Blows! appears to be a novel about Japan, but the
protagonist is a metaphor, aiming to negate Japan by writing falsely
about it, and using it as a screen for the author's innermost hopes
and desires. The author cannibalizes every book he references, as he
subjects his characters to the occult use of books for divination.
Kim, the grandson of illiterate Korean peasant farmers, is a recent
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about it, and using it as a screen for the author's innermost hopes
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subjects his characters to the occult use of books for divination.
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A Thousand Blows! appears to be a novel about Japan, but the
protagonist is a metaphor, aiming to negate Japan by writing falsely
about it, and using it as a screen for the author's innermost hopes
and desires. The author cannibalizes every book he references, as he
subjects his characters to the occult use of books for divination.
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about it, and using it as a screen for the author's innermost hopes
and desires. The author cannibalizes every book he references, as he
subjects his characters to the occult use of books for divination.
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non-fiction, high-brow and low-brow, and art and life. One Break,
A Thousand Blows! appears to be a novel about Japan, but the
protagonist is a metaphor, aiming to negate Japan by writing falsely
about it, and using it as a screen for the author's innermost hopes
and desires. The author cannibalizes every book he references, as he
subjects his characters to the occult use of books for divination.
Kim, the grandson of illiterate Korean peasant farmers, is a recent
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