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Ring, Ring: It's A Famous Author, on Your Cellphone!September 29, 2008 Cellphone novels: They're not just for harajuku girls anymore, at least not if Jakucho Setouchi has anything to say about it. The 86-year-old Buddhist nun and acclaimed writer (her translation of the medieval epic The Tale of Genji is renowned) has just released her first novel for the tiny screen. Tomorrow's Rainbow, according to this Reuters article, is "about a high-school girl who is deeply hurt by her parents' divorce, but finds the love of her life in a boy named Hikaru."There are several things about this story (via Gawker) that I love, but my favorite is how Setouchi (who says she "doesn't want to write any more mobile novels") uses elements from Genji in her new work. For anyone out there who's read this early novel (let's not debate whether or not it's the first; I'm a Satyricon girl, all the way, in any case), the name "Hikaru" is the first part of Genju's own ("Hikaru Genji" can be very loosely translated as "Golden Boy"). Setouchi may never write for a cell phone again, but this foray on her part into what's new and next in literature shows that no one needs to be limited by how things have always been done -- and that no matter how old a literary work is, there's always something fresh that can be done with it. I've talked in the past about the venerable tradition of imitation that runs through literary history. Would someone out there please revive Ophelia and have her narrate a cellphone novel? I think the result would be pretty interesting -- and who knows? It might revive a career stuck in a rut, too. Posted by Bethanne Patrick on September 29, 2008 | Comments (6)
September 30, 2008
In response to: Ring, Ring: It's A Famous Author, on Your Cellphone! Cheryl Pickett commented: Amen to authors trying something new. It may work, it could be scary, but new stuff doesn't just happen on it's own. Someone has to be first, second and so on.
October 18, 2008
In response to: Ring, Ring: It's A Famous Author, on Your Cellphone! Cheryl Kaye Tardif commented: I’m a Canadian author who’s taking cell phone novels to a whole new level. I’m not only writing my next novel on the new iPhone 3G (using the Notes app), I have a character in the novel who uses an iPhone.
October 18, 2008
In response to: Ring, Ring: It's A Famous Author, on Your Cellphone! Cheryl Kaye Tardif commented: I’m a Canadian author who’s taking cell phone novels to a whole new level. I’m not only writing my next novel on the new iPhone 3G (using the Notes app), I have a character in the novel who uses an iPhone.
October 18, 2008
In response to: Ring, Ring: It's A Famous Author, on Your Cellphone! Cheryl Kaye Tardif commented: Sorry, I have no idea why that posted twice.
October 18, 2008
In response to: Ring, Ring: It's A Famous Author, on Your Cellphone! Cheryl Kaye Tardif commented: Sorry, I have no idea why that posted twice.
October 22, 2008
In response to: Ring, Ring: It's A Famous Author, on Your Cellphone! Stan commented: Hi,
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