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The Forest Brims Over: A Novel
Counterpoint
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A woman turns herself into a forest after long being co-opted to serve as the subject of her husbands novelsthis surrealist fable challenges traditional gender attitudes and exploitation in the literary world Nowatari Rui has long been the subject of her husbands novels, depicted as a pure woman who takes great pleasure in sex. With her privacy and identity continually stripped away, she has come to be seen by society first and foremost as the inspiration for her husbands art. When a decades worth of frustrations reaches its boiling point, Rui consumes a bowl of seeds, and buds and roots begin to sprout all over her body. Instead of taking her to a hospital, her husband keeps her in an aquaterrarium, set to compose a new novel based on this unsettling experience. But Rui grows at a rapid pace and soon breaks away from her husband by turning into a forestand in time, she takes over the entire city. As fantasy and reality bleed together, The Forest Brims Over challenges unconscious gender biases and explores the boundaries between art and exploitationmuse abusein the literary world.
- | Author: Maru Ayase
- | Publisher: Counterpoint
- | Publication Date: Jul 25, 2023
- | Number of Pages: 208 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1640095373
- | ISBN-13: 9781640095373
- Author:
- Maru Ayase
- Publisher:
- Counterpoint
- Publication Date:
- Jul 25, 2023
- Number of pages:
- 208 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1640095373
- ISBN-13:
- 9781640095373