Honorable Picnic

Raucat, Thomas

ISBN 10: 0804814872 / ISBN 13: 9780804814874

Published by Tuttle Pub, 1954

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Honorable Picnic
• Publisher: Tuttle Pub
• Publication Date: 1954
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804814872
• ISBN 13: 9780804814874
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Written in 1924, this has been called the best novel ever written about Japan, and its charm remains undiminished. The French author, a pilot during World War I, was sent to Japan as a flying instructor after the war, and this book is a fictionalized account of the year he spent there. Writing in deceptively simple style and displaying an exceptional gift for observation, Raucat tells of a trip to the holiday island of Enoshima that goes badly wrong. By adopting the perspectives of different people in his narrative -- the foreigner bent on seduction, the poor young girl who is the object of his interest, the station-master at the train station where the two are supposed to meet, the proprietress of a hotel, the girl's friend and her spoiled son, a geisha and a young man -- he builds up a complex picture and a mood that shifts quickly from light to shadows, offering penetrating insights into the Japanese character, and capturing the heady and rarely-portrayed atmosphere of Tokyo in the twenties.