The Naked Eye - Yoko Tawada and more - move through

and more - move through the pages of The Human Comedy

and happiness is always within us if only we take a moment to see it

and speak Spanish in only a few short weeks

His depiction of the cruelty and arrogance of the ruling classes was considered subversive and led to his arrest and confinement to his estate

Written in a ‘state of attachment’

The Naked Eye - Yoko Tawada and more - move throughA precocious Vietnamese high school student known as the pupil with the iron blouse in Ho Chi Minh City is invited to an International Youth Conference in East Berlin. But, in East Berlin, as she is preparing to present her paper in Russian on Vietnam as a Victim of American Imperialism, she is abruptly kidnapped and taken to a small town in West Germany. After a strange spell of domestic sexual boredom with her lover abductor and though the Berlin