Sinéad Gleeson’s blog
In life as in art, sometimes the most familiar or everyday things can become terrifying in their ordinariness. In his studies of neurosis and hysteria, Freud invented a new word - “unheimlich”. While it’s difficult to translate specifically, (’unhome-like’, ‘unnative’), it refers to a sense of the uncanny, that is deriving terror or fear from […]
Kazuo Ishiguro talks to Sinead Gleeson about The Booker prize, unreliable narrators and a dystopian vision of medical science in his new book, Never Let Me Go.
The opening lines of Kazuo Ishiguro’s new book, Never Let Me Go are chillingly innocuous. The narrator tells us, “My name is Kathy H. I’m thirty one years old, […]
When Kitchen was published in 1987, it was regarded as a radical new addition to the canon of Japanese writing. The fact that it was written by a woman, and a young woman at that, made the book even more of a talking point. In terms of writing from the Orient, it wasn’t like anything […]