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Colin Marshall talks to novelist Todd Shimoda, author of 365 Views of Mt. Fuji, The Fourth Treasure and now Oh!: A Mystery of Mono No Aware.\nShimoda calls his stories \u201csomewhat experimental, post-modernish,\ndealing with Asian or Asian-American themes to some degree, but also\nbroad questions of existence,\u201d or \u201cphilosophical mysteries.\u201d His latest novel documents an embodies a search for the elusive Japanese literary concept of mono no aware.
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\nPersons/places/works/sites referenced in this interview, in the order mentioned
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\nTodd and L.J.C. Shimoda's web site, Shimodaworks
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\nTodd Shimoda's novels: 365 Views of Mt. Fuji: Algorithms of the Floating World, The Fourth Treasure and Oh!: A mystery of 'mono no aware'
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\nThe literary concept of mono no aware
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\nNovelist Yukio Mishima (1925-1970)
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\nNovelist Kobo Abe (1924-1993)
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\nNovelist Albert Camus (1913-1960)
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\nAlbert Camus' The Stranger (Everyman's Library)
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\nThe Japanese concept of ikigai, or the worth of living
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\nChin Music Press
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\nKobo Abe's The Ruined Map: A Novel
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\nAn excerpt of Todd Shimoda's Ruined Map sequel-in-progess, Why Ghosts Appear