Until Kitchen, many of the Japanese novels we had read were
That is, they stress the the unpredictability of life over theĭestiny of the characters. Miraculous events with daily life in Kitchen and similar novels reveals a view of life that Of my favorite American novelists, like Tom Robbins and John Irving. I am more accustomed to seeing this sort of plot treatment from some The tone of "magic realism" that this novel takes is one that I had neither seen nor expected I want to believe that Yoshimoto takes it as seriously as I do. Or perhaps, because I agree so strongly with this philosophy, Main female character in both stories, I suspect that Yoshimoto uses characters like these Kitchen isĭivided into two stories about people coping with the deaths of loved ones, "Kitchen"Īnd "Moonlight Shadow." By dealing with death and loss, the characters are able toīecause this theme and correlating ideas are related to us through the thoughts of a
We should experience both the painful and enjoyable aspects of life. The overriding theme of Kitchen is an extremely important one: the idea that I would like to discuss major themes and characteristics of KitchenĪnd how my perceptions of the novel changed when I read it in Japanese and in English. In preparation for this paper, I read Kitchen in English and reread parts of it in In this paper, I would like to discuss the novel Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto. Kitchen: "Beauty that seems to infuse itself into the heart." Kitchen: "Beauty that seems to infuse itself into the heart."īy Caitlin Howell, 1996 (caitlin at cs dot wisc dot edu)
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