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ajtye 's review for:
Goodbye, Eri
by Tatsuki Fujimoto
I would love to follow suit with the other reviews here, with their lovely poetic “art is remembrance” summations, but truth be told I have no idea where to even begin. In 200 pages, Fujimoto builds one of the most thematically complex short stories I can remember reading, stacking layers of reality and meaning on top of one another. It all sharpens to a point, but discerning the artifice from the truth is twisted until it becomes a meaningless exercise. More than any work I have read this year, Goodbye Eri is a meta textual conversation between you and the author. What’s really incredible is how affecting he manages to make it all.