The Library of Wonders

The Library of Wonders (不思議図書館)
Shuji Terayama (寺山修司)
ISBN 4-04-131521-2

For me, Shuji Terayama (寺山修司), was one of major contemporary Japanese
dramatist so far, but actually it looks like that he was one of the most avant-gard creative artists in Japan.

This book is a collection of Terayama's short essays.
He covers extremely wide range of topics. For example, Street Magicians, Robots, Mazes, Fetishism, Trompe L'oeil, Dragons, Gambles, Strange Murder Cases,... etc. etc.
Readers might feel a lack of oneness, but it makes sense that Terayama had huge variety of interests and they were the very backbones of his creative works.

BTW, I like the following 3 essays in the book.

3. Playing with Mazes of Books
12. Art History of Trompe L'oeil
22. An Encyclopedia of "One Thousand and One Nights"

Especially, "Playing with Mazes of Books" refers to J.L. Borges' "The Garden of Forking Paths" included in "Ficciones" which I read recently. I felt a kind of synchronicity.