Reader Ý 明暗 Author Natsume Sōseki ↠ Natsume Sōseki
The manipulative Madam Yoshikawa his boss's wife These exchanges explode into moments of intense jealousy rancor and recrimination that will surprise English speaking readers who expect indirectness delicacy and reticence in Japanese relations Echoing the work of Jane Austen and Henry James Soseki's novel achieves maximal drama with minimal action and symbolizes a tectonic shift in literary fo After a season of reading Jane Austen and Henry James in England Soseki comes up with Meian a masterpiece of psychological realism I wonder what would he had written had a volume of Clarice Lispector gotten in the way to his lap in a sunnier season in a warmer countryPersonally I mind very much reading books with no plot Feeling like I have had my share of Soseki before even reading 'I am a Cat' I am looking for a new Japanese author to discover However acknowledging the brilliance of the dialogues in Meian and the building of three dimensional characters is a must Sure to have forgotten about this novel next summer I close my borrowed edition with a feeling of satisfaction rarely delivered by an unfinished book This is the last book of the author who couldn't finish it
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明暗 Author Natsume SōseApanese fictionO Nobu is uick witted and cunning a snob and narcissist no less than her husband passionate arrogant spoiled insecure naive yet above all gallant Under Soseki's scrutiny she emerges as a flesh and blood heroine with a palpable reality dueling with her husband his troublemaking friend Kobayashi and her sister in law O Hid Tsuda undertakes his own battles with Kobayashi O Hid and In contrast to the previous evening her face was somewhat redder than what Tsuda knew to be her normal complexion But that might be interpreted as the physiological effect of the strong autumn sunlight falling directly upon her Such was Tsuda’s thought as he shifted his gaze away from the mountains to Kiyoko’s flushed earlobes They were thin The position of her head was such that the sun struck her ears from behind and Tsuda had the feeling the light reaching him had been filtered through her bloodstream on its way