A man wakes in a cell of a Kyushu university asylum with no memory of who he is, while two rival professors feed him a cursed manuscript, a ghastly murder case and a theory of ancestral dreams. Each document overturns the last in a looping, maddening labyrinth of mind and heredity.
Books mentioned in Dogra Magra (4)
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: “The paper Dr. Masaki submitted then, Dr. Saito predicted, would shake the scholarly world as much as Darwin's On the Origin of Species or Einstein's Principle of Relativity, or even more: it was the Treatise on the Brain. [auto-translated]”
Nansō Satomi Hakkenden by Takizawa Bakin: “A young man who can calmly answer whether that girl is beautiful is either a worn-out playboy or a descendant of the impotent men who appear in Nansō Satomi Hakkenden and the Water Margin. [auto-translated]”
Lotus Sutra: “As for the monk's name, Shōkū, it sounds Tendai, so he probably read something like the Lotus Sutra and grasped this principle from it. [auto-translated]”
Water Margin by Shi Nai'an: “A young man who can calmly answer whether that girl is beautiful is either a worn-out playboy or a descendant of the impotent men who appear in Hakkenden and the Water Margin. [auto-translated]”