During the Rains & Flowers in the Shade: Two Novellas - Rilegato

Nagai, Kafu

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0804722595 ISBN 13: 9780804722599

Casa editrice: Stanford Univ Pr, 1994

Riassunto

Nagai Kafu was one of the most important Japanese writers of fiction during the first half of the 20th century. These two works, which appear in English for the first time, are superb examples of the author's evocative descriptions of the moods and fancies of Tokyo.

Su questo libro

Product Description:

Nagai Kafu (1879-1959) is best known for his evocative descriptions of Tokyo and its people, especially the kept women, geisha, and prostitutes. These two novellas, which appear here in English for the first time, are set in the Tokyo of the 1930s. During the Rains (1931) is the story of the vicissitudes of an amiable and lascivious Ginza cafe girl. The hero of Flowers in the Shade (1934), kept by a wealthy woman in his student days, ends up in his forties being supported by a prostitute.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

“Though little enough is translated . . . it is apparent to the Western reader that here is one of the finest of modern Japanese novelists. These new translations consolidate this already deserved reputation.”—Donald Richie, The Japan Times
“Kafu’s dispassionate, vivid pictures of life in Tokyo’s decaying pleasure quarters.”—World Literature Today

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Stanford Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0804722595
• ISBN 13: 9780804722599
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 223