Thirty years in Tokyo
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Thirty years in Tokyo
19.99 €
"Thirty Years in Tokyo" is the first Russian translation of the memoirs of the famous Japanese writer Tayama Katai (1872-1930) about his childhood and youth, about his development as a professional writer, about the intense literary and social life of Japan in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He paints portraits of writers who stood at the origins of new Japanese literature, now classics, and at that time poor, often hungry young writers trying to find their place in the sun: Futabatei Shimei, Tokutomi Roka, Shimazaki Toson, Izumi Kyoka, Tayama Katai's close friend Kunikida Doppo and others. There were also those like Mori Ogai, to whom many pages of these memoirs are dedicated, already at that time considered a master and role model. Literary communities arose and fell apart, magazines were founded, in which heated polemics flared up every now and then, often developing into quarrels and disagreements - well, for these young talents, literature and everything connected with it was a purely personal matter. And, of course, the full-fledged hero of Tayama Katai's work is the city of Tokyo - the capital of the state and the center of cultural life of that era. This city changes before the author's eyes, expanding and acquiring European features, and along with the changes in the place of action, literature also changes - new ideas, borrowed from Europe, penetrate into it, which young writers try to comprehend and adopt.
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