work of imagination

“Already acclaimed as a masterpiece in Japan, Hayao Miyazaki’s new film begins as a simple story of loss and love and rises to a staggering work of imagination. I look forward to our audience discovering its mysteries for themselves, but I can promise a singular, transformative experience.”

And also I’d written all of the second album, which was more torrid and more informed by real experience than the first album, which inevitably was a work of imagination.

But it is an astonishing work of imagination and once you finish it you feel you need to start again to try to make more sense of it.

The upshot is a first novel way outside the norms: a work of imagination rather than autobiography.

“Translation requires creativity, it requires ingenuity, it requires imagination. So often, you have to radically rework the text, and if that isn’t the work of imagination, I don’t know what is.”