Light and dark :: a novel.

Recovering in a clinic from surgery, Tsuda Yoshio receives visits from a procession of intimates. Divergent interests create friction among these characters that explodes into scenes of jealousy, rancor, and recrimination. Tsuda then travels to a resort spa to continue his convalescence. There he en...

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1. Verfasser: Natsume, Sōseki, 1867-1916 (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Nathan, John
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Japanese
Veröffentlicht: New York : Columbia University Press, 2013.
Schriftenreihe:Weatherhead books on Asia.
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Zusammenfassung:Recovering in a clinic from surgery, Tsuda Yoshio receives visits from a procession of intimates. Divergent interests create friction among these characters that explodes into scenes of jealousy, rancor, and recrimination. Tsuda then travels to a resort spa to continue his convalescence. There he encounters Kiyoko, a woman that inhabits his dreams.
Beschreibung:Published in 1917, Light and Dark is unlike any of Natsume Soseki's previous works and unique in Japanese fiction of the period. What distinguishes the novel as?modern" is its remarkable representation of interiority. The protagonists, Tsuda Yoshio, thirty, and his wife O-Nobu, twenty-three, exhibit a gratifying complexity that qualifies them as some of the earliest examples of three-dimensional characters in Japanese fiction. O-Nobu is quick-witted and cunning, a snob and narcissist no less than her husband, passionate, arrogant, spoiled, insecure, naive?yet, above all, gallant. Under Soseki'
Beschreibung:1 online resource (433 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780231536189
0231536186
9781306313247
1306313244

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