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Book review: Yoko Tawada’s surrealist The Naked Eye tells of emigre experience via Catherine Deneuve
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In Yoko Tawada's The Naked Eye, the narrator’s life unfolds like a perverse parody of French screen legend Catherine Deneuve’s oeuvre.
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By Yoko Tawada, translated by Susan Bernofsky
Fiction/Granta Books/Hardcover/240 pages/$34.95
Ostensibly a novel about an abducted Vietnamese woman’s obsession with watching French screen legend Catherine Deneuve in Paris’ cinemas, Yoko Tawada’s The Naked Eye is in fact a surrealist novel of ideas about exile, aphasia and leading a vicarious life through art.
