Surrealist Poetry Turns Lethal: Kawamata Chiaki’s “Death Sentences” Reviewed

Death Sentences by Kawamata Chiaki; translated by Thomas Lamarre and Kazuko Y. Behrens University of Minnesota Press; 224 p. Kawamata Chiaki’s novel, Death Sentences, is the first of his numerous works to be translated into English. I like horror and science fiction, so I was excited to read something lauded by William Gibson, an author quickly becoming something of a demigod among genre devotees. But I was also hesitant, knowing that works translated from the original Japanese (a la Haruki […]

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