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筒井 康隆  |  Yasutaka Tsutsui

Legal name:  筒井 康隆

Transliterated name:  Tsutsui, Yasutaka

Birth place:  Osaka, Japan

Birth date:  24 September 1934

Language:  Japanese

Bibliographic comments:  

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Novels

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

1967

<  May 2011, 1st English language edition

Alma Books

ISBN 978-1-84688-134-3

Trade paperback, 170 pages

£7.99

Notes:

  •  Translated by David Karashima.

Paprika

1993

<  April 2009, 1st English language edition

Alma Books

ISBN 978-1-84688-077-3

Trade paperback, 350 pages

$19.99

Notes:

  •  Translated by Andrew Driver.

Hell

2003

Library edition: March 2010, 1st English language edition

Alma Books

ISBN 978-1-84688-046-9

Trade paperback, 190 pages

£7.99

Notes:

  •  Translated by Evan Emswiler.

Collections

What the Maid Saw

1972

<  June 1990, 1st English language edition

Kodansha International

ISBN 0-87011-992-3

Hardcover, 189 pages

$18.95

Notes:

  •  Translated by Adam Kabat.

  •  'Nanese Trilogy' series #1.

Fiction: The Plain of Emptiness  //  Prisoners of Dirt  //  In Quest of Youth  //  The Peach  //  The Saint in the Flames of

Hell  //  The Grass Is Greener  //  The Sunday Painter  //  Dear Departed Mother

Salmonella Men on Planet Porno

2006

<  October 2006, 1st English language edition

Alma Books

ISBN 978-1-84688-016-2

Trade paperback, 252 pages

£10.99

Notes:

  •  Translated by Andrew Driver.

  •  Contents differ from the Japanese collection of the same name.

Fiction: The Dabba Dabba Tree  //  Rumours About Me  //  Don't Laugh  //  Farmer Airlines  //  Bear's Wood Main Line  //  

The Very Edge of Happiness  //  Commuter Army  //  Hello, Hello, Hello!  //  The World Is Tilting  //  Bravo Herr Mozart!  

//  The Last Smoker  //  Bad for the Heart  //  Salmonella Men on Planet Porno

Bullseye!

2017

<  July 2017, 1st English language edition

Kurodahan Press

ISBN 978-4-902075-86-1

Trade paperback, ix+220 pages

$14.00

Notes:

  •  Translated and with an Introduction 'Yasutaka Tsutsui: A Deconstructor of Reality' by Andrew Driver.

Fiction: Bullseye!  //  Call for the Devil  //  The Onlooker  //  It's My Baby  //  Zarathustra on Mars: A Story for All and

None  //  Having a Laugh  //  The Good Old Days  //  Running Man  //  Sleepy Summer Afternoon  //  Cross Section  //  

Narcissism  //  Sadism  //  The Wind  //  A Vanishing Dimension  //  Oh! King Lear!  //  Meta Noir  //  The Agency Maid  //  

The Night They Played Hide and Seek  //  The Countdown Clock  //  Animated Realism