The Wild Goose
by:
Burton Watson (author)
Ōgai Mori (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780939512706 (093951270X)
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Culture,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
Japan,
Japanese Literature
Mori Ōgai co-mingles nostalgia for a vanished Tokyo of the late 1900's with romanticism as he tells the story of secret longing, isolation, and unrequited love. The main character, Otama, is the subject of pathos in this Meiji- period story: a naïve heroine left with gloomy prospects after her divor...
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