The Wild Goose
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780939512713 (0939512718)
ASIN: 939512718
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Pages no: 166
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...