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Paprika

by Yasutaka Tsutsui

Dreams and the waking world

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Dreams and the waking world

At a psychiatric research institute, a technology designed to enter people’s dreams becomes a source of danger when its prototypes disappear. Psychotherapist Atsuko Chiba pursues those responsible through a landscape where fantasy and waking life increasingly overlap. The setup brings speculative technology into contact with questions of mental vulnerability and the uncertain boundary between inner experience and external reality. Dreams are not just a setting here: they become the arena in which the conflict over the waking world unfolds.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in speculative fiction centered on dream technology and psychology.
  • Readers who enjoy stories where fantasy and everyday reality intersect.

Themes

Dreams and the subconsciousPsychiatry and mental vulnerabilityTechnology and its misuseThe boundary between fantasy and reality

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Book overview

Widely acknowledged as Yasutaka Tsutsui's masterpiece, Paprika unites his surreal, quirky imagination with a mind-bending narrative about a psychiatric institute that has developed the technology to invade people's dreams.

When prototype models of a dream-invading device go missing at the Institute for Psychiatric Research, it transpires that someone is using them to drive people insane. Threatened both personally and professionally, brilliant psychotherapist Atsuko Chiba has to journey into the world of fantasy to fight her mysterious opponents. As she delves ever deeper into the imagination, the borderline between dream and reality becomes increasingly blurred, and nightmares begin to leak into the everyday realm. The scene is set for a final showdown between the dream detective and her enemies, with the subconscious as their battleground, and the future of the waking world at stake.
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