Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Three Novellas for a Novel live
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“The Depleted Forest”
In which editor James Ballard, working in the concrete-cancer-riddled Tokyo of the near future, has a crisis over beating his Japanese mistress… To escape or resolve his confusion he rents a prostitute and heads to the hinterlands of Mount Fuji for a weekend of escapist sex, hippies and organic food amidst the remains of Aokigahara, the depleted floating “Sea of Trees”. But unwelcome memories intrude, as do the consequences of the cancer wiping out the Japanese skyline.
And Ballard has a letter waiting for him - someone very dangerous knows what he is doing to his mistress, and he begins to realize the story he is currently editing, of a boy named “Spoil the Child” and his terrific vengeance, may be his own story, and his undoing…
“∆O Hills Park”
In which we enjoy the machine-translated story of twelve-year-old orphan Spoil the Child and his older brother, who become quite willingly embroiled in the Japanese Ivy League rape and party club “I’m Your Man” under the leadership and malign influence of the dark nihilistic twenty-something witch-student “The Doubt Which Assaults"…
Spoil the Child trips up an American martial arts student at the top of the unforgiving stairs of Shinjuku station - the student’s fall to his death impresses the xenophobic Doubt Which Assaults, and provides the Child entrée into I’m Your Man’s world of privilege and wealth - privilege which extends to the consumption of people themselves…
“Based on the shocking true story of Super Free”
“Beau Mot Plage”
In which our narrator, a young and very pregnant American woman working as a model in Tokyo, stops off in London with her Japanese film professor husband, en route to the Cannes film festival. Bored with Breillat, she leaves her husband to his conference on transgressive cinema and heads to France, but at Nice airport she will have an accident that will leave her in Cannes during the festival a year later with no child and no memory of what happened, let alone how it came to be that she has money, a luxurious apartment prone to strange events (burned evidence in the armoire, footsteps above her, a child’s voice at a locked and sealed internal door) that give ominous clues as to what may have occurred…
Innocently, the amnesiac heads out to the film festival taking over the town, a festival to which James Ballard, who has dreamed her accident, and a twelve-year-old boy with revenge on his mind, seek attendance…