Saturday, April 19, 2003

Realism should make us see that which, through force of habit, we have been unable to see. Thus realism has no specific method. It is a relentless defamiliarization of the familiar [...] This type of realism does not describe landscape but always creates it. It brings into existence landscapes which, although they had always been there, had never been seen.

-- Kojin Karatani, Origins of Modern Japanese Literature, p. 29

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