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Bookmark or Share- How “The Memory Police” Makes You See - The New YorkerJia Tolentino reviews “The Memory Police,” a novel by Yoko Ogawa, from 1994, which was published in an English translation by Stephen Snyder earlier this year.
- The Memory Police - WikipediaThe Memory Police (Japanese: 密やかな結晶, Hepburn: Hisoyaka na Kesshō, "Secret Crystallization" or "Quiet Crystallization") [3] is a 1994 science fiction novel by Yōko Ogawa. [4] The novel, dream-like and melancholy in tone in a manner influenced by modernist writer Franz Kafka, takes place on an island with a setting reminiscent of that in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
- Yōko Ogawa - WikipediaYōko Ogawa (小川 洋子, Ogawa Yōko, born March 30, 1962) is a Japanese writer. Her work has won every major Japanese literary award, including the Akutagawa Prize and the Yomiuri Prize. [1] Internationally, she has been the recipient of the Shirley Jackson Award and the American Book Award. [2]
- Yoko Ogawa Conjures Spirits in Hiding: ‘I Just Peeked Into Their World ...The Japanese writer, inspired by Anne Frank’s diary, sought to “recompose” that experience for her new book “The Memory Police,” a dystopian novel about surveillance and erasure.
- The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa - GoodreadsIn Yoko Ogawa's highly allegorical novel, the enigmatic "memory police" is controlling the population of a remote island, subjugating the inhabitants by continually forcing them to destroy and forget things like roses, perfume or birds, and all memories attached to them.
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