He seemed to be enjoying eating me up so much that the sensation of it spread to me, and I felt as though I were tasting my own self. The stories consider how it feels to take other people into account, to be forever calibrating your own words and actions in relation to those nearby. 209 pages. Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. Her husbands features are always shifting on his face, and soon he resembles, variously, a monster, a snake, a new creature, his wife, and then, finally, a mountain peony. Check if your The husband-like thingpicked up the cocktail stick and popped a pear segment into themouth, which was positioned perilously close to his jawline. How had I ended up married to a completely different species of being from me? San wonders to herself, before her features begin to mutate too. 209 pages. The books 11 tales are, in one way or another, about the fettering of freedom. Delightful . There is something pareidolic about the writing process. . I think thats the image I have of marriage. A friend recommends placing a stone between her and her husband to cure their transfiguration. Snake ball, huh? I poked at a piece of grilled eel laid on the rice, and pictured a bright white ball covered in scales. (That may be an additional appeal of the gym: in a precarious world, a weight lifter looks exactly like what she is.) A woman trains as a bodybuilder, adding massive ropes of muscle to her back and shoulders, tripling the width of her neckand her husband doesnt notice. Other nuances arrive in Paprika Jiro, a story that conveys a fondness for mercantile traditions. On Midwest Gothic by Laura Donnelly. The narrator is surprised, but not at the transformationshe just never knew he wanted that. At the end of a story with an aesthetic solution, the narrative action is suspendedrather than resolvedand the author leaves the audience with a natural image that resists interpretation. In Yukiko Motoya's delightful new story collection, the familiar becomes unfamiliar. In the darkness, my husband swiftly removed my pajama bottoms. [2] After completing high school, Motoya moved to Tokyo to study acting, and won a voice acting role in the Hideaki Anno anime adaptation of Kare Kano, but switched her focus to writing after a teacher praised a short play Motoya wrote for the school's graduation ceremony. On Painting Time by Maylis de Kerangal, Lisa Hiton Each time I looked at my husband lying on the couchshe thinks to herselfI had the strange impression I was living with a new kind of organism that would die if it exerted itself in any way. His laziness alarms her more than the migration of his features to new regions of his face. Near But Not Touching: On The Naomi Letters by Rachel Mennies, Tracy Zeman [18], In 2018 a collection of Motoya's stories, translated into English by Asa Yoneda, was published under the title The Lonesome Bodybuilder in the United States. Okay, I heard a muffled voice say. On Stardust Media by Christina Pugh, Jehanne Dubrow Everyday objects and places are transformed into odd salves for the hyper-fractured lives of these characters, adding a mischievous streak to The Lonesome Bodybuilder. "The Reason I Carry Biscuits to Offer to Young Boys", trans. She comes to have a community of people who support her, and her bulging musclesher arms looked huge enough to snap a log in halfearn her a following at the natural-beauty store where she works. She has glimmering pink hair, shes an unstoppable ninja, she fights bad guys in the garden every day. Characters change; literally, their facial features move, morph, disappear. I wanted to pretend I was asleep, but then he wentto switch on the light, so I reached out and caught his hand almostby reflex. No one in Yukiko Motoyas new story collection, The Lonesome Bodybuilder, appears capable of seeing herself in the mirror. Motoyas protagonists feel quietly radical in a literary moment that seems particularly interested in unpacking various forms of narcissism. . That entreatyTake whatever form you want to be!might as well be Motoya imploring writers to make fiction pop and burst, to send it rolling out of the boutique and down the hill, curtain flapping. Youd just gotten braces, and you said the metal hurt and you couldnt eat anything. But after four years, I hadnttried to escape from the soil that was my husband. Malleability can imply a womans weakness, or it can imply power. His misperception becomes literal: he cant grasp whats right in front of him. We used to sing this song all the time. An insidious exchange of traits and gender stereotypes unfolds and the boundaries between the two characters become porous. Then I felt skinslacken, and bodies start to yield, and then I could no longer tellwhose sensations I was feeling. [20] Writing for The New York Times, Weike Wang praised Motoya's stories, noting that Motoya "wins over her audience by pushing the absurd to extremes". This really takes me back. On the screen, a quiz show was posing a question about an ad that had been on heavy rotation just after wed gotten married. March 2021 Micro-Reviews, Amy Hassinger -, "Motoya wins over her audience by pushing the absurd to extremes. Her husbands jealousy is another form of misperception. 'These arresting, hyper-real stories linger in the imagination . Men and women enter into romances with shape-shifters. We use Unearthing Memory and Reclaiming the Feminine in Shanta Lee Ganders GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA, Chris Via Its also the collections penultimate entry. By now, I was like the ghost of a snakethat had already been eaten up by many other snakes, and Id lostmy own body long before getting swallowed up by my husband. [21] Nilanjana Roy, in her review for the Financial Times, concluded that "Yukiko Motoyas shivery, murmuring voice will never completely leave you". Lying on the couch, they prompt the strange impression of a new kind of organism that would die if it exerted itself in any way. There is acid in Motoyas surrealism: these women will put up with anything! Some changes render you, paradoxically, more yourself. These pastiches, parodies, and hauntings are all brilliantly translatedwith all their uncanny intactby Asa Yoneda. . Each story begins unsuspectingly a clerk helps a woman in a changing room, a wife decides to go to the gym and, from these seemingly realistic setups, the magical and the surreal unfold. But Motoya belongs more to modern oddness than to a fabulist tradition. . [22], Motoya continued writing and directing plays for her theatre company while also writing short stories and novels, and in 2006 she became the youngest person ever to win the Tsuruya Nanboku Memorial Award for Best Play, which she received for her play Snan (Distress). On Popular Longing by Natalie Shapero, Benjamin Woodard Hakone quenched her thirst with cold roasted green tea from the vending machine. And so it is throughout: all these husbands are brutally banal in their ignorance, their apathies, and their cruelties. Her varied work has resulted in numerous accolades, and, most recently, the release of The Lonesome Bodybuilder, the first book-length English translation of her fiction. . In the title story, a husband watches a boxing match and asks his wife what she thinks of his body. . Didnt you say his ex-wife wasreally good-looking?, Really good-looking. So, for example, in the (US-)title story the narrator is inspired to take up bodybuilding, sculpting her body through intense exercise, after catching a boxing match her husband was watching on TV. Motoya wins over her audience by pushing the absurd to extremes. The women in these stories find themselves with bad mennot malicious or violent, but complacent, uninteresting, and undeserving of their partners. [10] Motoya's 2009 novel Ano ko no kangaeru koto wa hen (That Girl's Got Some Strange Ideas) was nominated for the 141st Akutagawa Prize. In spite ofin fact, because ofher affection for the odd and comic, Motoyas stories grant sobering insights into the compromises of love and marriage, the fraught pursuit of art and desire, and the dangers of becoming stuck in the wrong version of your life. Every time Inoticed myself acting as though that was who Id been all along,a chill went up my spine. or She can no longer recognize the husbands face; he starts to do housework. Never is the ennui of these men treated as anything more than a product of their privilege and their twisted expectations of the people around themwhich rescues much of the collection from a dive into the dour and dismal. Only when you begin reading, when the . The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. On If by Song by Marcia Karp, Brian Chander Wiora In The Women, a man is forced to kill his own fantasies after they come to life and challenge him to a duel. . [4] From 2005 to 2006 Motoya was the Friday host for Nippon Broadcasting System's late night radio show All Night Nippon. After moving to Tokyo to study drama, she started the Motoya Yukiko Theater Company, whose plays she wrote and directed. Thank you for supporting The Atlantic. Yukiko Motoya's imagination is wild and rich in her eleven whimsical short stories in this book. After that, my husband took to tinkling the fake coins incessantly,everywherein the bath, on the toilet, even under thecovers. The characters featured in them arent particularly good at intimacy, even if they live in close proximity to spouses, old friends, and co-workers. The Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers, Developmental Editing Fellowship for Emerging Writers, Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement. Unlike the alienation other characters face within the context of relationships, she is literally all alone, but this only strengthens her sense of self. Remember?. Eventually, the clerk has no option except to haul the fitting room out of the store. On A Whole World: Letters from James Merrill, Nicholas Bredie And they eat and they eat at exactly the same speed, until theyre just two heads making a ball, and then they both get eaten up and disappear. Even as The Lonesome Bodybuilder approaches its conclusion, new and winding pathways unfurl. This is a game where you collect money?. The titular bodybuilder lives what seems to be a structured, self-contained life (I decide who I am, and never consider other possibilities); bodybuilding is an exciting new discovery that expands her world. Change the plan you will roll onto at any time during your trial by visiting the Settings & Account section. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. You can still enjoy your subscription until the end of your current billing period. (He will no doubt be prepared to be swung as hard as it takes to protect your honor.) The husbands are oppressively thoughtless, moody, domineering. When something akin to freedom is gained, its often vague or ostensible, but the impediments to that freedom are surveyed in great detail. Motoyas characters tend to be housewives and service workers, and her tales revolve around intimate or faux-intimate relationships. This normalization gives the stories their irony and their sense of being just a bit off, like a lingering scent of formaldehyde. In another, a man sees his girlfriends lips begin to bleed a lipstick hue he has fantasized about her wearing. Ad Choices. English translation copyright 2018 by Asa Yoneda. On The Atmospherians by Alex McElroy, Asa Drake On The Nightfields by Joanna Klink, Patrick Davis On The Curious Thing by Sandra Lim, Diana Whitney The positioning of his features was deteriorating faster thanever. MEDIA REVIEWS. The stories collected in Yukiko Motoya . Nevertheless, she feels invisible because her husband never notices her. Empire Gold : A Review of Claire Meuschkes UPEND, John Wall Barger The story ends on a note of limitlessness: Anything at all could turn out to be something beyond my wildest dreams.. Her only companionship comes from a pack of mysterious dogs that, unbeknownst to her, terrorize the nearby village until there is no one left. Motoya Yukiko, general information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author. The mass movement of a migrating flock of . "In Yukiko Motoya's delightful new story collection, the familiar becomes unfamiliar . Perhaps its greatest gifts are its aesthetic solutions, whichthough at most tangential to successful western narrativesoften feel like deep breathsconstructed benisons where a reader can get out from under the storm. Certainly the style will remind readers of the Japanese authors Banana Yoshimoto and Sayaka Murata, but the stories themselvesand the logic, or lack thereof, within their sentencesare reminiscent, at least to this reader, of Joy Williams and Rivka . The narrator of An Exotic Marriage notices that she and her husband are beginning to look alike, but her husbands investment in game shows is the greater threat to her happiness and autonomy. When he notices that the fight has attracted her attention, he accuses her of lusting after the boxers and their muscled bodies. I wasexpecting some cutting-edge visual effects, but what I saw wasan image representing what looked like oceans and continents,drawn in simple lines like in old Nintendo games. The unsettling way people can lose themselves to mundanity and wrestle to reclaim their selfhood is best illustrated in the novella-length An Exotic Marriage. Originally published on its own, it earned Motoya the prestigious Akutagawa Prize in 2016 and was translated for this collection. To Motoya, complacency is not only a violation of selfhood but also of fiction. Sign up for our mailing list to get the latest updates on happenings at Maudlin House, and product discounts! He's a founding member of Literary Starbucks (2016) and a recovering poetry editor with a chronic crush on nouns that get used as adjectives. On Asylum by Jill Bialosky, Jehanne Dubrow Meanwhile, the reader watches each transformation and stab at connection. Tomokos animosity toward her straw husband is as brief as it is startling. by It featured eel sourced from the Shimanto River, Lake Hamana,the Mikawa region, and Miyazaki Prefecture, grilled bothwith sauce and without. () The writing itself is to be admired." Youknow, I think pears might be my favorite fruit, he announced. Motoya locates a venerable sense of ancestry and inherited duty in the storys young market trader. I was still thinking about the ex-wife following the refrigerator conversation. 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Yukiko Motoya ( , Motoya Yukiko, born July 14, 1979) is a Japanese novelist, playwright, theatre director, and former voice actress.She has won numerous Japanese literary and dramatic awards, including the Akutagawa Prize, the Noma Literary New Face Prize, the Mishima Yukio Prize, the Kenzaburo Oe Prize, the Kishida Kunio Drama Award, and the Tsuruya Nanboku Drama Award. Okay. I turned on my heel and went back into the kitchen. Yukiko Motoya's The Lonesome Bodybuilder is a refreshing reminder that fiction is an elastic medium, capable of stretching into new and surprising shapes. The same goes for San, whose face melts into new patterns. The executive who holds her tongue at the meeting also sees, or dreams that she sees, faces in inanimate objects; she suffers from a condition called pareidolia, in which the mind perceives illusory patterns in random stimuli. It also indicates the range of Motoyas storytelling style by unveiling additional powers of suggestion and atmospheric description. My husband looked up from the iPad for the first time in awhile, and what I saw nearly made me shriek and run from theroom. "Why I Can No Longer Look at a Picnic Blanket Without Laughing", trans. Bodybuilder is the best example, and in An Exotic Marriage, a familiar notion of couples starting to look alike turns eerie. (I want you to come out of that fitting room with a smile on your face! the attendant chirps, noting the slurping, roiling kind of sound emanating from behind the curtain.) . After moving to Tokyo to study drama, she started the Motoya Yukiko Theater Company, whose plays she wrote and directed. I carefully took a piece of each and placedthem on top of Hakones rice. What happens then?, Yeah. Hakone hummed and said nothing. All the while, it seems her husband cant be bothered to noticeshe is an afterthought only, and he appears to be too bored of life to be able to sense the swirling wonder of her story. Motoya wards off fatigue by peppering this buffet of patriarchal cruelty with humorsurprising enough and sharp enough to elicit as many belly laughs as grimaces while reading. 'These arresting, hyper-real stories linger in the imagination . [5] She appears in the ending sequences of FLCL during credits, in which she's listed as model. I finished towel-dryingmy hair and stepped out onto the balcony to bring in the laundryId hung out that afternoon. When I thought about whether the thing that had started tomove on top of me was my husband or just something like him, Ifelt a terrible dread and kept my eyes firmly shut. [23] An English version of her play Vengeance can Wait, translated by Kyoko Yoshida and Andy Bragen, premiered in 2008 at the Best of Boroughs Festival in New York City. Asa Yoneda. On Exclusions by Noah Falck, Jim Johnstone Matthew D. Rodrigues's writing has appeared in Quill & Quire, The Hedgehog Review, and Fandor. I thought perhaps the gamegot more interesting the longer you played, but whenever I lookedover my husbands shoulder, the screen always looked the same. Youre accommodating, San, and before you know itshe breaks off, as Sans features rearrange themselves to mirror her partners. Eine Hausfrau wird zur Bodybuilderin, aber ihrem arbeitsschtigen Ehemann fallen die neuen Hakone, are youand Senta thinking about getting married yet? I asked, getting a light blouse out of my bag. What are you doing on there? I peered over his shoulder. Our Final Words: A Review of Eternal Sentences by Michael McGriff, Katherine M. Hedeen 2023 Cond Nast. Any changes made can be done at any time and will become effective at the end of the trial period, allowing you to retain full access for 4 weeks, even if you downgrade or cancel. Im not sure why. He has received fellowships from the Edward Albee Foundation and the Ucross Foundation. Facial features intermittently disassemble, prompting Sans panic. That night, my husband left the iPad outside the bedroom. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. In the collection's longest and scariest story, "An Exotic Marriage," Motoya, through her narrator, lands a flurry of punches against the oppressive domesticity . The World Owes You Nothing: A Review of Mine! You don't always know what you're getting into when you pick up a book. Michael Staley. Claire Crews San isnt the only woman in Motoyas stories who feels neglected and vaguely undefined. () Motoyas talent for voice informs her first-person narrators, both female and male, who have a genuine vulnerability and convincing matter-of-factness as they veer into the fantastic." Her books have been published or are forthcoming in French, Norwegian, Spanish, and Chinese, . In The Straw Husband, the narrators husband is just that, straw, but his composition is less concerning than his inordinate devotion to his car. [6][7], In 2002, prompted by a magazine editor's invitation, Motoya made her fiction debut with the short story Eriko to zettai (Eriko and Absolutely). The Lonesome Bodybuilder (published as Picnic in the Storm in the UK .) Maybe I should have gone for that one too, I said enviously,looking into Hakones bento box as I took the rubber band off my own. The climate crisis demands a form of literary expression that lifts it out of the realm of intellectual knowing and lodges it deep in readers bodies. All this time, I had been feedingmyself to those men. I didn't like that story much at allit shouldn't have been in this collection. The husband . He probably thought that once he and I became one,he would never again have to worry about being judged by others. Her command of vivid detail comes through in close studies of perception and psychology, and in the conjuring up of outsized brutalities. It was adapted into the 2007 Daihachi Yoshida film Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers!, starring Eriko Sato and Hiromi Nagasaku, which was shown at the Cannes Film Festival. Story Comes From Place: On Site Fidelity by Claire Boyles, Jasmine V. Bailey The fact that I couldnt stop, even if I tried, was proof that it wasnt actually a matter of anything as benign as acting or pretending.. In the realms of Motoya, believable behavior is more destructive and upsetting than any surreal occurrence. No, I said. Perhaps the most resonant stories are those about marriage; Motoya (a playwright as well as an author) excels in putting husband and wife through unusual trials. These two stories stand out from the others, which, at times, are held back by traces of redundancy or ideas that are almost excessively legible. Yukiko Motoya, trans. The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. Even as The Lonesome Bodybuilder approaches its conclusion, new and winding pathways unfurl. When I sat down next to him, the husband-like thing pickedup the TV remote and started flipping through channels. While not explicitly feminist, her female protagonists share a capacity for small rebellions, sudden twitches against life-long habits of conformity. The unsettling stories in The Lonesome Bodybuilder are deeply preoccupied with the yawning disconnect between people. Authenticity is a reclamation project, and her characters go to great lengths to prove their agency. Yukiko Motoya is a writer, playwright, and stage director. In The Women, a citys female population contracts a virus that turns them into homicidal hotties. But she doesnt want the menshe wants the muscles. How Climate-Change Fiction, or Cli-Fi, Forces Us to Confront the Incipient Death of the Planet. I heard a tinkling sound like coins dropping into a piggy bank, which Id been hearing constantly all evening. Id expected marriage to be an even more constricting flowerpot than my previous relationships. The Lake Hamana eel was firmer and more succulent than the one from the Mikawa region. Motoya sets a scene involving several hundred couples engaged in a melee defying all imagining by inventorying the screams, the clash of weapons, men begging for their lives from lovers who seemed beyond language, belated confessions of love The story concludes in a tragedy, but its later reversed by a single line in a different story. . Like that actress from the movies., How did he split up with a person like that and end up marrying you?. Yukiko Motoyas The Lonesome Bodybuilder is available from Soft Skull Press. was published in 2005. Youd both be in trouble then,wouldnt you? Hakone said. document.getElementById("comment").setAttribute( "id", "a99614a11d827b9063a1afe41f6c5bef" );document.getElementById("facec42938").setAttribute( "id", "comment" ); Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Poems That Linger: Peter Campions One Summer Evening at the Falls, Johannes Gransson "That Morning, When It", trans. As the strangeness mounts, San observes her identity as something willed and imposed. On The Water Statues by Fleur Jaeggy, Peter Campion The collections longest story, An Exotic Marriage, is more of a novella, and explores physical transformation as a metaphor for the shifting of identities in a relationship. You must be concerned, said Hakone, sounding anything but as she took a pair of disposable chopsticks out of their packet. So, for example, the husband in 'The Straw Husband', in a relationship otherwise most like any other, is really made of straw ("yes, that straw, stalks of dried rice or wheat, plant matter used as fodder for farm animals, or for bedding -- tied into bundles and rolled into a human shape"), while the narrator of 'The Dogs' describes how: "I didn't like beds, so I slept standing up, leaning against the windowsill" (apparently every night). Or: What really would have happened if Id gotten on the roller coaster that day? There seems to be an essential despair of heterosexual partnership in these storiesnot that they suggest that a just and joyful partnership is an impossibility! Youre talking about him a lot lately., Thats exactly what I told Uwano. Marie Mockett takes umbrage, in her excellent Lit Hub essay Our Fairy Tales, Ourselves, with critics and philosophers whose pursuit of universal laws of narrative structure blind them to the expansive possibilities of literature. 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