![]() She will end up murdered, strangled at the age of thirty-nine by a client, a young Chinese illegal immigrant, escaped from his rural village and dazzled by the artificial and deceptive lights of the hyper-modern metropolis. Grotesque (2003) by Kirino Natsuo, is based on the true story of a single woman who carries a double life: during the day she is a business woman in a prestigious consultancy firm, but in the nights she wills to be a prostitute. And yet, at the peripheries, in that marginal space where characters waste their lives, a new female subject comes to life, able to free herself from the marginalization to which contemporary society has relegated her. ![]() Unstable identities, crossing the metropolis in a desperate attempt of leaving the mark that summarizes their existence. ![]() Middle-aged lonely women whose steps echo in the emptiness of an architectural and urban space less and less designed to shelter them: soulless bars, desolately undifferentiated convenience stores, desert sidewalks. ![]() How are female mature bodies portrayed in contemporary Japanese women’s literature? Aging represents a main turning point in woman's life and, in their contemporary writings, the different nuances of the passing of time are reflected more and more frequently: signs impressed on bodies and souls, through the merciless gaze, often of a male observer. ![]()
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