PDF 博士の愛した数式 By Yōko Ogawa

PDF 博士の愛した数式 By Yōko Ogawa 小川 洋子 was born in Okayama Okayama Prefecture graduated from Waseda University and lives in Ashiya Since 1988 she has published than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction Her novel The Professor and his Beloved Euation has been made into a movie In 2006 she co authored „An Introduction to the World's Most Elegant Mathematics“ with Masahiko Fujiwara a mathematician as a dialogue on the extraordinary beauty of numbersA film in French „L'Annulaire“ The Ringfinger directed by Diane Bertrand starring Olga Kurylenko and Marc Barbé was released in France in June 2005 and subseuently made the rounds of the international film festivals; the film some of which is filmed in the Hamburg docks is based in part on Ogawa's „Kusuriyubi no hyōhon“ 薬指の標本 translated into French as „L'Annulaire“ by Rose Marie Makino Fayolle who has translated numerous works by Ogawa as well as works by Akira Yoshimura and by Ranpo Edogawa into FrenchKenzaburō Ōe has said 'Yōko Ogawa is able to give expression to the most subtle workings of human psychology in prose that is gentle yet penetrating' The subtlety in part lies in the fact that Ogawa's characters often seem not to know why they are doing what they are doing She works by accumulation of detail a techniue that is perhaps successful in her shorter works; the slow pace of development in the longer works reuires something of a deus ex machina to end them The reader is presented with an acute description of what the protagonists mostly but not always female observe and feel and their somewhat alienated self observations some of which is a reflection of Japanese society and especially women's roles within in it The tone of her works varies across the works and sometimes within the longer works from the surreal through the grotesue and the sometimes grotesuely humorous to the psychologically ambiguous and even disturbing