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Thinking about Three or Four Things at Once: Katsuhiko Otsuji’s “I Guess All We Have is Freedom,” Translated from Japanese by Matt Fargo
What impresses me, then, about Katsuhiko Otsuji’s “I Guess All We Have is Freedom”—translated into deliciously playful and decadent English by Matt Fargo—is the way Otsuji’s odd turns and tangents feel at once like true stream of consciousness and yet circle back in again and again upon themselves, all in the name of demonstrating how unstable our sense of reality really is.