β Scribed by Hiroko Oyamada
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
The English-language debut of one of Japan's most exciting new writers, The Factory follows three workers at a sprawling industrial factory. Each worker focuses intently on the specific task they've been assigned: one shreds paper, one proofreads documents, and another studies the moss growing all over the expansive grounds. But their lives slowly become governed by their workβdays take on a strange logic and momentum, and little by little, the margins of reality seem to be dissolving: Where does the factory end and the rest of the world begin? What's going on with the strange animals here? And after a whileβit could be weeks or yearsβthe three workers struggle to answer the most basic question: What am I doing here?
With hints of Kafka and unexpected moments of creeping humor, The Factory casts a vividβand sometimes surrealβportrait of the absurdity and meaninglessness of the modern workplace.
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La Factory è uno stabilimento di animali sottoposti alla più grigia routine produttiva. Da molte stagioni Scorza, un ratto solitario, ha scoperto il modo di entrarvi, aprendosi un varco in una grata di ferro arrugginito. à così che riesce a rubare il foraggio destinato agli animali d'allevamento. La