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| Original Title | 鳥 |
|---|---|
| Author | 横光 利一 |
| Genre | Modern Short Fiction |
| Author Type | Male Author |
| Summary | Bird plunges into the psychological depths of an unnamed geologist, caught in a torrid triangle of love, rivalry, and intellectual inferiority. His meticulously ordered world, entwined with his former wife Rikako and his brilliant friend Q, slowly unravels as Rikako’s affections shift like the geological strata he studies. Plagued by self-doubt and a desperate need to escape the suffocating weight of his past, he conceives a radical plan: a literal ascent into the sky with Rikako, a flight to shed their old lives and be reborn as "birds." But as they soar above the earth, can they truly outrun the ghosts of their tangled history, or will the very air they breathe be tainted by the ground they left behind? |
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