A Reader’s review of Sayaka Murata’s Convenience store woman -by Simran Sharma When reading Japanese fiction, the issue one runs into is that nothing ever makes sense until you accept that it's Japanese and extremely culturally esoteric. Perhaps, as with any culturally informed and idiosyncratic novel, the reader is always aware and feels the unfamiliarity and newness of the writing. Sayaka Murata’s Convenience store woman conveys a poignant feature, contravening the fabrications of societal normality, notions of personal growth, stability and the pursuit of good life. For Keiko Furukura, the convenience store is a sonic realm. The convenience store sound, which is repeatedly referenced in the book, is an escalating auditory experience that probably only Furukura can obtain in one of the busiest and most crowded places in human existence. After eighteen years in the same position, she has mastered the art of being...
Burnout Society & its feminist narratology an excerpt analysis by Kaushiki Ishwar I love Byung chul-han’s Philosophy, I have spent multiple hours dissecting why is he so dystopian, while I was reading burnout society, one of his exemplary works on capitalism and destruction, In the chapters Han prescribes that, Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather than improving life, multitasking, "user-friendly" technology, and the culture of convenience are producing disorders that range from depression to attention deficit disorder to borderline personality disorder. Byung-Chul Han interprets the spreading malaise as an inability to manage negative experiences in an age characterized by excessive positivity and the universal availability of people and goods. Stress and exhaustion are not just personal experiences, but social and historical phenomena as well. Denouncing a world in which every against-the-grain response ...