A Single Match
In this collection of hauntingly elliptical short stories, Oji Suzuki explores memory, relationships and loss with a loose narrative style, filling each tale with a sense of unfulfilled longing. He plumbs the dissolute depths of human psychology, literally bathing his characters in expansive shadows that paradoxically reveal as much as they obscure. A young man catches a cold after being soaked in the rain and is tended to by his grandmother. He drifts, dreaming of a train trip with an older brother he doesn't have. A traveling salesman comes across a boy lying in the middle of the road and stops to have a cigarette and tell a story that drifts through memories of faces and places, before settling back on the traveling salesman and the boy pretending to not look at the stars. A young woman walks along the river with her bicycle and a friend who is nothing more than a disembodied head, discussing past times together, memories they have of each other.
Manga
Seinen
1985
📗 Completed
📗 Completed
Volume 1, Chapter 11
Suzuki Oji
Suzuki Oji
Comedy, Drama, Historical, Mystery, Psychological, Sci-Fi, Slice of Life, Tragedy, Philosophical
School Life, Aliens, Military
Anthology
Seirindo
