Ihara Saiku (1 results)

Softcover. Condition: Gut. 233 p. Good copy with rubbed and slightly soiled binding. With bumps and yellowing. - "Saikaku Ihara, novelist and poet, was un- doubtedly one of the most uninhibited writers that ever published a tale. Japanese critics of the more sensitive school once downgraded him as vulgar because of his unabashed pre- occupation with life in the gay quarters. Others, less concerned with moralistic judg- ments than with technique and objectivity in the storytelling art, have since acclaimed him as a great realist, largely because of his minute, true-to-life delineation of characters, customs, and events of his day. The Life of an Amorous Man is Saikaku's first major work in prose, published in 1682, when he was forty-one. In this novel, as in his later works, he depicts the pursuits and follies of the most glamorous period of old Japan: the dawn of the Genroku era, when the wealthy commoners, rising in importance above the traditional warrior caste, indulged in the free and easy life of such celebrated pleasure districts as Edo's Yoshiwara, Osaka's Shimmachi, and Kyoto's Shimabara." Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.