Light and dark : a novel /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Weatherhead books on Asia.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Item Description: | "Originally published in Japanese with the romanized title of "Meian"." Previously titled: Light and darkness: an unfinished novel in parts in a Japanese serial publication. 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. Electronic resource. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (433 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780231536189 (electronic bk.) 0231536186 (electronic bk.) |