Author: Otaki Binta
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★Recommended by Yobinori Takumi (educational YouTuber)!★
"It reminded me of a friend from my graduate school days who would talk to me with this passion.
This book is packed with all the good and bad things about science!"
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"The Metamorphosis" (Kafka), "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (García Márquez), "To the Lighthouse" (Woolf), "This is a Pen" (Enjoe Toh)...
This is a reading essay in which author Otaki Henta, who has a science background, interprets classic works from all over the world, past and present, from a scientific perspective.
Who decides what a novel's genre is?
Why is "metafiction" so hard to grasp?
What is the difference between "first person" and "third person"?
When you add a scientific perspective such as physics or mathematics to these "literary" topics, the workings of the novel become much clearer.
For example, what happens when you read Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" or "The Castle" from a thermodynamic perspective? Why can mysteries be solved? Why does a good piece of writing seem like a novel? This book uses every possible method to read literary works from a scientific perspective, even delving into the big mystery of "how can a mere pile of words become a 'novel'?"
In other words, this is a reading experience that takes a scientific approach to the question, "Why are novels interesting?"
This is a new type of reading guide that is recommended for people who have avoided novels because they seem difficult.
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★Recommended by Yobinori Takumi (educational YouTuber)!★
"It reminded me of a friend from my graduate school days who would talk to me with this passion.
This book is packed with all the good and bad things about science!"
....................................................................................................
"The Metamorphosis" (Kafka), "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (García Márquez), "To the Lighthouse" (Woolf), "This is a Pen" (Enjoe Toh)...
This is a reading essay in which author Otaki Henta, who has a science background, interprets classic works from all over the world, past and present, from a scientific perspective.
Who decides what a novel's genre is?
Why is "metafiction" so hard to grasp?
What is the difference between "first person" and "third person"?
When you add a scientific perspective such as physics or mathematics to these "literary" topics, the workings of the novel become much clearer.
For example, what happens when you read Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" or "The Castle" from a thermodynamic perspective? Why can mysteries be solved? Why does a good piece of writing seem like a novel? This book uses every possible method to read literary works from a scientific perspective, even delving into the big mystery of "how can a mere pile of words become a 'novel'?"
In other words, this is a reading experience that takes a scientific approach to the question, "Why are novels interesting?"
This is a new type of reading guide that is recommended for people who have avoided novels because they seem difficult.
Released 25/10/10
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