The Forest Brims Over by Maru Ayase

The Forest Brims Over by Maru Ayase

A woman turns herself into a forest after long being co-opted to serve as the subject of her husband's novels-this surrealist fable challenges traditional gender attitudes and exploitation in the literary world

Nowatari Rui has long been the subject of her husband's 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 husband's art. When a decade's 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 breaks away from her husband by growing into a forest-and 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 exploitation-muse abuse-in the literary world.

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ISBN 13	9781640095373
ISBN 10	1640095373
Titel	The Forest Brims Over
Autor	Maru Ayase
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Counterpoint
Erscheinungsjahr	2023-07-25
Seitenanzahl	208
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.