I worked late today. This morning, I read Keizo Hino's novel "The Light [日野啓三『光』]". After enjoying reading that, I still felt a certain dizziness. Yes, it's like after enjoying marvelous movies (for me, it's like "Blade Runner" or "2001: A Space Odyssey"). Therefore I accept this novel as a true masterpiece, which has changed how I view this world.
This novel is the story of an amnesiac ex-astronaut who wandered in a city while trying to remember who he was, therefore this can be accepted as various aspects such as a sci-fi novel which predicts our future (but it does not contain so-called "catchy" and "edgy" images, but trying to show how our minds can be changed by the encountering this universe's true/real figure in my opinion), or a very human romance (like "Blade Runner", I've already mentioned though), or a true philosophical work which shows how our inner universe can be changed.
I thought this after reading... and certainly "tasting" the dizziness (it wasn't pleasant or comfortable, but it couldn't be annoying too much for me either). This novel was published in the 1990s, when the internet showed its true figure to the public (even though there had already been a computer network globally). Therefore, in this novel, I can't find any words from modern internet culture. However, at least as a personal reading impression, I think it has not been an old-fashioned novel that just has to be vanished. I believe this novel must have a vivid actuality.
Now, it seems every single piece/detail of this world has been revealed openly under the sun. Nothing enigmatic exists in this world... However, even though I keep on learning various things through books and documentaries, I feel awful when I encounter this world/universe's true figure directly. As you can see, virtual/literal knowledge can be different from physical/actual understanding through this body and soul. Even though some cynical people can say this novel as just a cluster of "brainy" imagination only, I just believe that this one can show us a holy figure of this universe.
Now, I feel that one sentence in this novel still echoes in my mind, which is "No one can decide where to go through their destinies [行くところを決めるのは自分じゃない]".
