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The Changeling

novel by Ōe Kenzaburō

Also known as: “Chenjiringu”

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Chenjiringu (2000; The Changeling) tells the story of a writer who relives his personal history, often in a dreamlike and surreal manner, after he receives a collection of audiotapes from an estranged friend who appears to have recorded his own suicide. In Suishi (2009; Death by Water)…
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