Takiguchi Yūshō: 'When I’m writing fiction, I have very little sense I’m the one inventing the story'

Podcast: Fictionable · Fictionable

Opublikowano: 2026-05-16

We've already heard from Diana Evans, Bruna Martini, Joel Cox and Holly Edwards in this Spring series of podcasts. Now we bring it to a close with Takiguchi Yūshō and the translator Jesse Kirkwood. Takiguchi tells us that the wandering narrator in Peppermint is following the same method as his author. "It's when things start heading somewhere unexpected and when unexpected things begin to happen that it really starts to feel like the novel is working properly," he says. Just as in life, Takiguchi continues, "even if you don't wa...