Notes at the head of the bed
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Sad and funny scenes of court life. Great secular anecdotes (sometimes quite poisonous). Pictures of nature. Philosophical reflections. Transparent, crystal language. A sharp and incisive mind of the narrator. Uncommon observation ...
"Notes at the Headboard", recognized during the author's lifetime as an unqualified masterpiece and became a kind of "bestseller" (of course, in a very narrow court circle, but the other in Japan in the Heian era was not - total illiteracy was not only the people, but also the emerging samurai nobility), laid the foundation for a unique literary genre "zuihitsu", more or less successfully translated as "essay", but exactly essay is not. In reality, zuihitsu are simply unconstrained writings about everything and nothing. "Pure art" in a straightforwardly distilled form, "beauty for beauty's sake", not trying to escape behind the vicissitudes of the plot and appreciated for what, in fact, and is - the absolute perfection of style, which prose Sei-Shonagon stands out even against the background of the richest galaxy of talented stylists of medieval Japanese literature.
"Notes at the Headboard", recognized during the author's lifetime as an unqualified masterpiece and became a kind of "bestseller" (of course, in a very narrow court circle, but the other in Japan in the Heian era was not - total illiteracy was not only the people, but also the emerging samurai nobility), laid the foundation for a unique literary genre "zuihitsu", more or less successfully translated as "essay", but exactly essay is not. In reality, zuihitsu are simply unconstrained writings about everything and nothing. "Pure art" in a straightforwardly distilled form, "beauty for beauty's sake", not trying to escape behind the vicissitudes of the plot and appreciated for what, in fact, and is - the absolute perfection of style, which prose Sei-Shonagon stands out even against the background of the richest galaxy of talented stylists of medieval Japanese literature.
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