The wild goose /
"Mori Ōgai (1862-1922), one of the giants of modern Japanese literature, wrote The Wild Goose at the turn of the century. Set in the early 1880s, it was, for contemporary readers, a nostalgic return to a time when the nation was embarking on an era of dramatic change. Ōgai's narrator is a...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Ann Arbor :
Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan,
1995.
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| Series: | Michigan monograph series in Japanese studies ;
no. 14. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Mori Ōgai (1862-1922), one of the giants of modern Japanese literature, wrote The Wild Goose at the turn of the century. Set in the early 1880s, it was, for contemporary readers, a nostalgic return to a time when the nation was embarking on an era of dramatic change. Ōgai's narrator is a middle-aged man reminiscing about an unconsummated affair, dating to his student days, between his classmate and a young woman kept by a moneylender. At a time when writers tended to depict modern, alienated male intellectuals, the characters of The Wild Goose are diverse, including not only students preparing for a privileged intellectual life and members of the plebeian classes who provide services to them, but also a pair of highly developed female characters. The author's sympathetic and penetrating portrayal of the dilemmas and frustrations faced by women in this early period of Japan's modernization makes the story of particular interest to readers today"--Publisher |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 166 pages) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| ISBN: | 9780472127467 0472127462 9780472901418 0472901419 |