Name: Paprika
ISBN: 9788493724795

Yasutaka Tsutsui

Paprika

"When prototype models of a device for entering into patients' dreams go missing at the Institute fro Psychiatric Research, it transpires that someone is using them to manipulate people's dreams and send them insane. Threatened both personally and professionally, brilliant psychotherapist Atsuko Chiba has to journey into the world of fantasy to fight her mysterious opponents. As she delves ever deeper into the imagination, the borderline between dream and reality becomes increasingly blurred, and nightmares begin to leak into the everyday realm. The scene is set for a final showdown between the dream detective and her enemies, with the subconscious as their battleground, and the future of the waking world at stake."--Cover.

I really wanted to like this book. I'm not sure if it's a translation problem, or if the plot really is so needlessly convoluted. None of the characters are particularly compelling, not even the protagonist, and the conceptually noteworthy ideas of the novel don't hit home until the second part of the book. The pacing just seems strange; Part 1 is agonisingly slow and political, and then Part 2 is too fast and convenient. The book also manages to be unnecessarily misogynistic and triggering and I'm not sure how that's relevant in any way to the ideas being unravelled. The psychoanalytic ideas and plot points themselves are all explained to you point blank; it feels inauthentic, as if they're being shovelled into the book arbitrarily. Watch the Satoshi Kon film instead.

Alexia

Wow... y no en sentido positivo. 
Esperaba mucho más desarrollo de la historia en sí, y menos de todos los aspectos desagradables que arruinan el libro.

Idea: 5
Historia: 4
Escritura: 2
Traducción: 3
Misoginia: -1
Homofobia: -1
Gordofobia: -1

11/7=1,157->2 estrellas.

A U.S. release of a signature work by the award-winning Japanese writer traces a brilliant psychotherapist's surreal battle in the realms of human subconscious when a psychiatric technology is stolen and used to invade dreams and induce insanity. Original. 15,000 first printing.

Paprika

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