Masks - Brossura

Enchi, Fumiko

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0394722183 ISBN 13: 9780394722184

Casa editrice: Vintage, 1983

Riassunto

Mieko Togano, a highly cultivated, seemingly serene, but frustrated and bitter woman in her fifties, manipulates for her own bizarre purposes the relationship between her widowed daughter-in-law and that woman's two suitors

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Recensione:

 “A subtle examination of universal female behavior.” —People

“[Enchi’s] allusions to the masks of Nō plays and to the classic The Tale of Genji, the brilliant way she layers and interweaves the ancient, the more recent past and the present are haunting and rich. A fictional enchantment.” —Publishers Weekly

“Enchi’s writing has some of the same amniotic fluidity as Tolstoy’s, an almost bodily, floating immersion into the effortless habitat of the story.” —The American Reader

“Clear and powerful. . . . Almost imperceptively woven.” —Kirkus

L'autore:

Fumiko Enchi was born in Tokyo in 1905, the daughter of the great Meiji scholar Ueda Mannen. She is the author of many novels and stories, and has produced a ten-volume translation of The Take of Genji into modern Japanese. Masks was first published in Japan in 1958.

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• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0394722183
• ISBN 13: 9780394722184
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 160