Masks
by:
Enchi Fumiko (author)
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 suitorsTitle: MasksAuthor: Enchi, FumikoPublisher: Random House IncPublication...
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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 suitorsTitle: MasksAuthor: Enchi, FumikoPublisher: Random House IncPublication Date: 1983/11/01Number of Pages: Binding Type: PAPERBACKLibrary of Congress: 83006655
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Format: papier
ISBN:
9780394722184 (394722183)
ASIN: 394722183
Publish date: 1983 (data przybliżona)
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
A man may try as hard as he likes but he'll never know what schemes a woman may be slowly and quietly carrying out behind his back. The Tale of Enchi- Fumiko Enchi started her career as a dramatist; she was influenced by Ibsen and Strindberg, and cultivated an interest in kabuki. She emerged in ...
The ambiguity of the narrator lends a surreality to the book. This is carried forward in the abrupt transitions which keep the reader at the same place as the characters; on edge. The seance scene is a profound part of the novel as it seems to set the tone of the book and begins the wondering of th...