Présentation de l'éditeur
In this cahier Paul Griffiths effects a multi-layered translation, taking a series of eleven Japanese Noh plays and turning them into stories in English. The reader will encounter spirit-beings set free, lovers lost and found, dreams and desires fulfilled, lessons learned from nature, and always a longing for the infinite, as the long, slow drama of each noh play is transformed into a short and moving tale. Interspersed and contrasting with the stories are ten photographs of contemporary Japan by John L. Tran which further explore the relation between theatricality and narrative, while offering hints of a very different vision of infinitude.
Biographie de l'auteur
Paul Griffiths worked for thirty years as a music critic in London and New York. His Modern Music and After, now in its third edition, is the standard work on music since 1945. His fictional works include Let Me Tell You and the libretto of Elliott Carter's only opera, What Next? John L. Tran is a British artist of Vietnamese descent, currently based in Tsukuba, Japan.
