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■NISHI Masahiko September 25, 2011 Terminal Life: Scenery of Terminal Phase, Sakuhin-sha, 348ｐ. ISBN-10:4861823528　ISBN-13: 978-4861823527　3780　[amazon]／[kinokuniya] ※

■Contents

Gregor who finds himself as a bug, and alienated from his families, Meurseault　who dozes idly toward death as a condemned criminal and Marcel who lives his elderly life as if riding on living stilts... This book is a series of literary essays that interpret aging and terminal lives, which are described in canonized 20 century literatures!

■Table of Contents

Life of A Bug: Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis
Death from Disgrace: Franz Kafka's The Trial
The Unemployed: Franz Kafka's The Man Who Disappeared
Death from Torture: Franz Kafka's In the Penal Colony
Death from Overwork: Franz Kafka's The Castle
Death Row Inmate: Albert Camus's The Stranger I
Happiness: Albert Camus's The Stranger II
Wobble: Vladimir Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading
Washout: Louis-Ferdinand Céline's Mort a Credit, etc.
Blossoming Elderly Life: Bruno Schulz's Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
Scenery of Surrounding the Dead: William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying
String of Time: Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time I
Transmigration of Sounds: Marcel Proust In Search of Lost Time II
Sex of the Elderly: Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time III
Playing a Game of Puberty: Witold Gombrowicz's Pornografia
Onanists: Witold Gombrowicz's Kosmos
Outdoors Wanderer: Samuel Beckett's Molloy
Spending Time Until Death: Samuel Beckett's Malone Dies
Inseparable Human Relation: Samuel Beckett's Endgame
Group and Death: Bashevis Singer's Old Love, etc.
Usage of Shame: John Maxwell Coetzee's Age of Iron
Lives of Humans and Animals: John Maxwell Coetzee's Disgrace