{"id":3715,"date":"2014-05-14T05:17:14","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T12:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i81.a52.mywebsitetransfer.com\/?p=3715"},"modified":"2014-06-14T05:20:56","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T12:20:56","slug":"triangle-by-hisaki-matsuura-translation-by-david-karashima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/?p=3715","title":{"rendered":"Triangle by Hisaki Matsuura (translation by David Karashima)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dactylreview.com\/2014\/05\/14\/triangle-by-hisaki-matsuura-translation-by-david-karashima\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3716\" title=\"triangle\" src=\"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/triangle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"96\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a>Tokyo, 1994. Japan is now well into what observers will later call the \u201clost decade,\u201d a downward spiral triggered by the Japanese central bank\u2019s bursting the speculative bubble of the 1980s. The seemingly inviolable climb of the Japanese economy\u2014and society\u2014has reversed.<\/p>\n<p>Triangle, the 2001 novel by the respected Japanese writer Hisaki Matsuura released in its first English edition by Dalkey Archive Press (233 pages) this month, is an attempt to transform the Japanese downward spiral into a metaphysical thriller. But novels\u2014even literary ones\u2014based on conceptual ideas rarely work.<\/p>\n<p>continue to <a href=\"http:\/\/dactylreview.com\/2014\/05\/14\/triangle-by-hisaki-matsuura-translation-by-david-karashima\/\"><em>Dactyl Review<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class='fb-like'><iframe src='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/?p=3715&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=260&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light' scrolling='no' frameborder='0' allowTransparency='true' style='border:none; overflow:hidden; width:260px; height:26px'><\/iframe><\/p><fb:share-button href=\"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/?p=3715\" type=\"box_count\"><\/fb:share-button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo, 1994. Japan is now well into what observers will later call the \u201clost decade,\u201d a downward spiral triggered by the Japanese central bank\u2019s bursting the speculative bubble of the 1980s. The seemingly inviolable climb of the Japanese economy\u2014and society\u2014has reversed. Triangle, the 2001 novel by the respected Japanese writer Hisaki Matsuura released in its &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/?p=3715\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Triangle by Hisaki Matsuura (translation by David Karashima)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-literature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3715"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3720,"href":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3715\/revisions\/3720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}