The Diving Pool
Novella collection by Yōko Ogawa / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Diving Pool: Three Novellas is a novella collection by Japanese author Yōko Ogawa, first published in English in 2008. It was Ogawa's first book-length work to be translated.[1]
Author | Yōko Ogawa |
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Original title | Daibingu pūru (ダイヴィング・プール) Ninshin karendā (妊娠カレンダー) Domitorii (ドミトリイ) |
Translator | Stephen Snyder |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Genre | Psychological horror, magical realism, surrealism |
Publication date | 1990/1991 |
Published in English | 2008 |
Pages | 164 |
ISBN | 9780099521358 |
895.635 |
The Diving Pool is a triptych of psychological horror stories with a loosely connected theme about Japanese femininity, loneliness, and societal alienation. All three novellas have young female protagonists, a schoolgirl in "The Diving Pool" and young adult women in "Pregnancy Diary" and "Dormitory", who feel isolated and alienated by Japanese society and lash out at their surroundings. The novellas focus on the domestic world, reinterpreting it as a prison for its characters which they try gainlessly to escape; the protagonists are at times uncaring, schizoid, or monstrous in their behaviour towards themselves and the world around them.
The Diving Pool received a positive reception in translation, becoming an object of critical praise and academic study. In the original Japanese, the novellas had been published in separate collections up to a year apart, where they were each individually well received.