The Man Without Talent
"We are, in other words, enamored with The Man Without Talent as one of the premier examples of the "I-novel" (shishosetsu) in comics form, referring to a genre of putatively autobiographical fiction, popular in Japan since the early twentieth century, that typically dwells on the writer/protagonist's struggles with poverty and artistic creation and their less-than-admirable interactions with the opposite sex."
~~ from "Where is Yoshiharu Tsuge" by Ryan Holmberg,
an essay included in the English translation of
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