Indeed, though he does not ‘lie’ about his past in any conventional sense, he is anxious that some details from that period do not emerge. Ono's remembrances, like Etsuko's, detail pain and loss Ono's story seems to fill in gaps and elusive meanings as the novel progresses, but what occurs instead of discovery is the narrator's own version of life made more palatable in the very act of telling it. Within each of his entries, Ono narrates two main events linking his past and present: life as a struggling then prominent artist and life as the family patriarch overseeing a fragmented family. The shifts between entries are subtle and they suggest Ono's modification of his stories as he moves forward. sowe can actually watch his progress, and so that the language itself changes slightly. What writes in October 1948 is actually written out of a different set of assumptions than the pieces that are written later on…. Diary narrative is that each entry can be written from a different emotional position.
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