Dandelions – Yasunari Kawabata
The novel is a dialogue between the mother and the husband of a girl whom they left at a psychiatric clinic. The dialogue include their memories of her which are often highly sensual and even sexual.
The whole novel happens in the main character’s absence.
‘body blindness’ – somagnosia – fictional illness? an effort not to see objects or parts of oneself?
highly symbolic?
It seems to say something about transparency, subjectivity, inability to ever really see another or overcome your own perspective. Unconcealable distance.
‘That’s what’s been scaring me lately – the notion that something exists, but you can’t see it.’