Book record
A Kiss for the Absolute
Shūzō Takiguchi
Translated from Japanese by Mary Jo Bang
A Kiss for the Absolute by Shūzō Takiguchi, translated from Japanese by Mary Jo Bang, Yukiko Tanaka and published by Princeton University Press, is a book rooted in Japan. Takiguchi’s A Kiss for the Absolute, translated by Mary Jo Bang and Yukiko Tanaka, has a title that fuses erotic nearness with philosophical extremity. A kiss is intimate, bodily, fleeting. The absolute is abstract, impossible, almost cold. That collision gives the book its likely charge. As Japanese poetry moving through Princeton University Press, it feels like a work for readers interested in surrealism, modernism, and the point where desire reaches beyond the human scale.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan