Toshikazu kawaguchi7/5/2023 ![]() However, Battaglia praises Kawaguchi’s handling of relationships. ![]() ![]() While this approach may be useful in the context of guiding actors in their interpretation of stage characters, it goes against the American literary preference for “show don’t tell” in narrative fiction, which promotes action over exposition. “ Working Within Limits in ‘Before the Coffee Gets Cold’.” Chicago Review of Books, November 19, 2020). Battaglia goes further, stating that “the book is written in a way deeply reminiscent of stage direction” and that Kawaguchi struggles with exposition, as he “often resorts to authorial asides, in which he lays bare the weight of his situations and the depth of his characters” (Battaglia, Ian J. Battaglia remarked that Kawaguchi’s style, as translated by Trousselot, is often repetitive and inelegant. Both the Christian Science Monitor’s Terry Hong and Chicago Review of Books’ Ian J. American reviewers of the novel have had mixed responses. ![]()
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