SOURCE: "The Mysterious East," in The Virginia Quarterly review, Vol. 67, No. 4, Autumn, 1991, pp. 778-79.
In the essay below, lebowitz maintains that the compression of detail in the stories in Palm-of-the-Hand Stories is reflective of aspects of both primitivism and sophistication in Japanese culture.
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