Publisher/白夜書房

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"Suzuki Izumi: Personal Novel" is a collection of works by Nobuyoshi Araki, a photographer who is still popular worldwide. This book is a memorial collection of works for the novelist Izumi Suzuki, who committed suicide by hanging in front of her children in 1986, and was published in the same year she died. Suzuki, a genius literary girl, moved to Tokyo with the aim of becoming a novelist, and after working as a nude model and a pink actress, she became active as a novelist and essayist in the 1970s. However, after a passionate and intense marriage to her husband, Kaoru Abe, a genius alto saxophonist who was also admired by Ryuichi Sakamoto (Abe died suddenly from a drug overdose), her mental and health deteriorated, and she gradually became dependent on welfare, passing away at the young age of 36 in 1986. This book is a work by the duo Nobuyoshi Araki and Akira Suei, who were dominating the era at the time with "Photography Era," and is based on a collection of works by Araki about Izumi Suzuki that was scheduled to be published by a certain publisher in the early 1970s. Araki's demo works, which had been shelved and lost, were discovered by chance in the same year that Suzuki died, and Araki asked Suei to publish them. In addition to Suzuki Izumi's "Voiceless Days" and "Tokyo Era," the book also includes texts by Kenjo Toru and others who were members of the editorial department at Kadokawa Shoten at the time.