Eikyo Matsunaga
Eikyo Matsunaga is a Japanese fiction writer pursuing the world's most advanced literary expression as a creative ambition. By asking AI to write and comparing its work with his own, he searched for a style that AI could not reproduce and arrived at his current voice. For Matsunaga, the act of a human writing is itself a form of resistance in the age of AI. His short fiction turns familiar routines into absurd situations, using humour and unexpected human responses.
Works:
Literature, More or Less: A Short Story Collection — Eikyo Matsunaga. English edition of the Japanese collection 一応、文学です。 Genre: literary fiction, absurdist humour, short stories. A clinic prescribes rice instead of medicine, and diners are expected to prepare their own meals. Ten stories explore ordinary people encountering strange rules and unlikely situations.
Kindle ASIN: B0HMRQCB52.
Purchase:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HMRQCB52
What can human writers create in an age when AI can write fiction?
Japanese author Eikyo Matsunaga explores this question through Literature, More or Less, a collection of ten unconventional short stories filled with absurd situations, unexpected turns, and distinctly Japanese humor.
A mysterious clinic prescribes rice instead of medicine. A village of salmon develops an extraordinary strategy for survival. A legendary goldfish scooper faces an impossible challenge. And these are only the beginning.
Behind the absurdity lies a serious literary experiment.
After experimenting with AI-generated fiction and comparing his own writing against AI in a project called “AI vs Me,” Matsunaga began searching for stories that might emerge from a uniquely human imagination.
His ambition is to challenge the very forefront of contemporary literature—not by imitating AI’s polished prose, but by pursuing the strange, ridiculous, unpredictable possibilities of human creativity.
Ten stories. One question: What remains uniquely human when machines can write?
Literature, More or Less invites readers into an unusual world where the seemingly trivial becomes the subject of fiction, and laughter opens the door to a deeper question about literature itself.
Website:
https://matsunaga-eikyo.kpsk1010.chatgpt.site/
Social Media/Blog:
https://eikyomatsunaga.blogspot.com/