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ResurrectionAuthor: Toyoshima Yoshio
| Original Title | 蘇生 |
|---|---|
| Author | 豊島 与志雄 |
| Genre | Modern Short Fiction |
| Author Type | Male Author |
| Summary | A young university student awakens to fractured consciousness, his body weak and mind adrift in a haze of morphine and memory. Keisuke’s world tilts between feverish visions and stark reality: blurred faces hover over him—his roommate Nakanishi, a weeping servant, a nurse with cold hands—while phantom footsteps echo and a dead lover’s smile burns behind his eyelids. Fragments surface: a poison shared, a desperate pact with Keiko, her anguished final moments etched in his soul. Yet gaps remain. Why does her sister Akiko cling to him with tearful pleas? What truths do Nakanishi and Keiko’s betrothed friend Yaeko withhold as they speak of fate and courage? Hallucinations blur with grief—shattered glass, a dagger’s gleam, funeral rites under autumn skies—as Keisuke grapples with a resurrection he never sought. Bound by guilt and ghostly whispers, he teeters between desolation and revelation, haunted by the question: Did love demand their end, or betray them? |
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