Red Colored Elegy
Seiichi Hayashi
Translated by Taro Nettleton
20 February 2018Synopsis
An influential and experimental work, in an all-new paperback edition!
Ichiro and Sachiko are young artists, temperamental and discouraged about what life has to offer them. They fall in and out of love, jealous of each other's interests and unchallenged by their careers. Red Colored Elegy charts their heartache, passions, and bickering with equal tenderness, creating a revelatory portrait of a...
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20 February 2018
9781770462120Reviews
“[Red Colored Elegy] is a condensed visual poetry that still feels avant-garde nearly forty years later.” —The Believer
“Traced photographs, blank word balloons and nearly cubist sex scenes . . . beautifully lament Ichiro and Sachiko's failed relationship . . . The story is heartbreakingly universal.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
