![]() ![]() Winter Sleep is narrated by a well-known painter, Masatake Nakagi. We acknowledge (and remind and warn you) that they may, in fact, be entirely unrepresentative of the actual reviews by any other measure. Similarly the illustrative quotes chosen here are merely those the complete review subjectively believes represent the tenor and judgment of the review as a whole. ![]() Please note that these ratings solely represent the complete review 's biased interpretation and subjective opinion of the actual reviews and do not claim to accurately reflect or represent the views of the reviewers. (.) Synopsis is simply not up to conveying the odd, edgy, simultaneously puritan and Dionysian energy of this baffling and refreshing novel." - Carl Shuker, The Japan Times These present, as do ellipses in text, holes in the narrative, periods of abstraction and transport (.) Kitakata, superb stylist that he is and very much in control of his material, puts his utterly uninvolved narrator to the test toward the end of the novel. But then there are periods of painting, composition. "The novel in synopsis could easily amount to a kind of catalog: dinners eaten, beers drunk, emotionless sex acts barely enjoyed, multimillion-yen sales.General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the authorī : moody and intense, a bit heavy on the arty talk Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. ![]()
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