{"id":299346,"date":"2014-09-15T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2014\/09\/15\/latest-review-i-called-him-necktie-by-milena-michiko-flasar\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:09:36","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:09:36","slug":"latest-review-i-called-him-necktie-by-milena-michiko-flasar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2014\/09\/15\/latest-review-i-called-him-necktie-by-milena-michiko-flasar\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Review: "I Called Him Necktie" by Milena Michiko Fla\u0161ar"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest addition<\/a> to our Reviews<\/a> section is a by Christopher Iacono on Milena Michiko Fla\u0161ar’s I Called Him Necktie<\/em>, translated by Sheila Dickie and published by New Vessel Press.<\/p>\n

Here’s the beginning of Chris’s review:<\/p>\n

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While looking back at an episode in his life, twenty-year-old Taguchi Hiro remembers what his friend Kumamoto Akira said about poetry.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Its perfection arises precisely from its imperfection . . . . I have an image in my head. I see it clearly before me. Its colors are glaring and harsh in their brightness. But as soon as I rush to capture it, it explodes, and what I write down are separate bits that don\u2019t form a whole. Do you see it now? It\u2019s as if I tried to glue together a broken vase, piece by piece. But the shards are so fragmentary that I don\u2019t know which goes with which or how I fit them together, there\u2019s always one fragment left over. But this fragment! It makes the poem. It alone gives meaning . . . . My requiem should be a vase with water shooting through the glue in its cracks.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Soon after this speech, Kumamoto wrote this \u201crequiem\u201d\u2014which he also called \u201chis poem\u201d\u2014and now Hiro is writing his. Also, like his friend, Hiro is fixated on a broken object; in this case, it\u2019s his bedroom wall, which has a hairline fissure that he\u2019s been staring at for the last two years, so he can figure out how to fit himself inside it. Hiro has spent a lot of time staring at this crack, because following a traumatic incident when he was eighteen, he became a hikikomori<\/em>, a young person who shuts him- or herself in a room and has no interaction with anyone else. Even though his parents still left food at his door, they pretty much gave up on him. However, at the beginning of this wonderful novel from Japanese-Austrian writer Milena Michiko Fla\u0161ar, Hiro finally re-emerges into the outside world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

For the rest of the review, go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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