文明の憂鬱

by Keiichirō Hirano, 平野 啓一郎

AIBO、皇太子妃ご懐妊報道、略字体、口蹄疫、ピッキング、大リーグ、臓器移植、世界同時多発テロ、加工食品……。私たちを取り囲んでいるモノ、技術、現象、事件、情報……そうした文明のちっぽけなしっぽの一端から、巨大な憂鬱が見えてくる。明晰な論理と非凡な視点、そして鋭い感覚で日常に潜む微細な欺瞞をも見抜いてゆく。単行本未収録の24編を加えた全49編の文明批評エッセイ。※文庫版に掲載の写真は、電子版には収録しておりません。

264 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Keiichirō Hirano (平野 啓一郎 Hirano Keiichirō, born June 22, 1975) is a Japanese novelist.

Hirano was born in Gamagori, Aichi prefecture, Japan. He published his first novel (Nisshoku, 日蝕) in 1998 and won the Akutagawa Prize the next year as one of the youngest winners ever (at 23 years of age). He graduated from the Law Department of Kyoto University in 1999. In 2005 he was nominated as a cultural ambassador and spent a year in France.

Reviews

[Kyoungjin Lim · Rating 3 out of 5]

平野啓一郎、文明の行間を読む。