![]() The “Japanese” aesthetic manifests itself in The Dead in the silent film art of the Swiss film director Emil Nägeli, which also mirrors Kracht’s literary aesthetics as taciturnity. A concept suit i made for Deadspace 2. In Dead Space and Dead Space (2023), the symbols can be found all over the walls on the Ishimura and the Aegis VII colony, written either in blood or in marker pen. Above all, taciturnity and the rejection of rational dialogue are aspects of the aesthetic presented by Tanizaki in In Praise of Shadow, which Kracht adapts in The Dead. The novel contrasts Western, ‘rational’ culture with the spiritual world of the foreign Japanese culture. (EA), 209 Redwood Shores Parkway, Redwood City, California, USA 94065. On the one hand, The Dead is marked by Kracht’s perception of Japan by his choice of subject and setting on the other hand, this also shapes the novel’s stylistic and narrative style. This Promotion is sponsored by Electronic Arts Inc. Thus, Tanizaki’s essay “In Praise of Shadows” (originally published in 1933) is already referred to in the In Praise of Shadows chapter in the travel essay Der gelbe Bleistift (2000), and Kracht even prefaces his novel The Dead (2016) with a quotation from a poem by Tanizaki. Isaac fused with a marker concept art/3D modeling desIGNup DeadSpace (credit: 3DRESO). This article deals with the significance of Japanese aesthetics for Christian Kracht’s poetics, especially of the Japanese author Junichiro Tanizakis (1886–1965).
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