ひとびとの跫音
A long novel centered on Masaoka Chuzaburo, the adopted son of Ritsu, Masaoka Shiki's sister, and on the poets, thinkers, and ordinary people connected to Shiki's circle. Rather than grand historical events, Ryotaro Shiba listens to intimate memories and relationships, quietly tracing the pathos of lives being born and passing away.
Work Information
From the footsteps of people linked to Shiki emerges a clear, elegiac portrait of ordinary lives.
The novel follows the life of Chuzaburo after his adoption into the Masaoka family, while bringing together Ritsu, Takusen Kato, Hiroshi Nuyama, Ryuji Nishizawa, and others who carried their convictions and loneliness on the margins of modern Japan. Through recollection and reported memory, Shiba catches the dignity in the words and conduct of people who were not heroes, turning the footsteps left in history's margins into a sustained narrative.
Review Summaries
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The work leaves a strong impression through its intimate evocation of the dead rather than through the broad design usually associated with historical fiction. Memories of Masaoka Shiki, Ritsu, Chuzaburo, and Hiroshi Nuyama are loosely connected, giving the prose the feel of a single voice rising from within.
Book Information
- Publisher
- 中央公論新社
- Published
- 2009-08-01
- Pages
- 523 pages
- Language
- 日本語
- ISBN-13
- 9784120040504
- ISBN-10
- 412004050X
- Price
- 946 JPY
- Category
- 本/文学・評論
Amazon.co.jp: ひとびとの跫音 : 司馬 遼太郎: 本
Reviews
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ずしり
これまでも何回か読んだけど挫折してました。腹にズシリとくるないようです。 ありがとう。