Feste in lacrime è una raccolta di dodici racconti di Prabda Yoon, figura di spicco dell'ambiente culturale e creativo thailandese. L'autore gioca in maniera inedita con la lingua, ricorrendo al poetico e al pop, costruendo ambientazioni in bilico tra il surreale e il vivido. I racconti sono inquieti, divertenti e caratterizzati da atmosfere misteriose e malinconiche. Una coppia fa l'amore durante un temporale e le loro attività sono interrotte dal crollo di due lettere giganti sul tetto d...

In these witty, postmodern stories, Yoon riffs on pop culture, experiments with punctuation, flirts with sci-fi and, in a metafictional twist, mocks his own position as omnipotent author. Highly literary, his narratives offer an oblique reflection of contemporary Bangkok life, exploring the bewildering disjunct and oft-hilarious contradictions of a modernity that is at odds with many traditional Thai ideas on relationships, family, school and work.

In a pink-walled motel, a teenage prostitute brings a grown man to tears. A lovestruck young boy holds the dismembered hand of his crush, only to find himself the object of a complex ménage à trois. A naked body falls from the window of a twenty-storey building, while two female office workers offer each other consolation in the elevator… In these wry and unsettling stories, Prabda Yoon once again illuminates something of the strangeness of modern cultural life in Bangkok. Disarming the re...

Ce deuxième numéro hors-série de la revue Jentayu offre un panorama unique de la littérature thaïlandaise contemporaine, "une architecture de proses et de poésies formant un portrait d'une littérature peu connue d'un pays mondialement touristique", comme l'écrit Jean-Noël Orengo dans son avant-propos. Dix-neuf auteurs différents, pour la plupart traduits pour la première fois en français. Un recueil richement illustré grace aux travaux originaux de trois ...