OD>吉野大夫 (Chuko on demand books)
The narrator follows traces of Yoshino Dayu, a courtesan said to have lived in Shinano-Oiwake, through graves, temple records, local memory, and documents. Blending fiction, essay, and criticism, the novel turns the act of searching itself into a digressive, proliferating narrative.
Work Information
A search for Yoshino Dayu becomes a labyrinth of documents, places, and remembered traces.
Yoshino Dayu follows the traces of a courtesan associated with Shinano-Oiwake as both a historical search and a wandering act of narration. Through graves, records, and local lore, the work expands sideways through the narrator's thought and style rather than moving toward a single firm answer.
Review Summaries
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It is introduced as a work in which the narrator finds graves and records connected with a real courtesan, yet never fully grasps her identity as the story digresses and proliferates.
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It is received as a Tanizaki Prize-winning work built through a distinctive mixture of fiction, essay, and criticism around a courtesan of Shinano-Oiwake.
Book Information
- Publisher
- 中央公論新社
- Published
- 2001-09-01
- Pages
- 236 pages
- Language
- 日本語
- ISBN-13
- 9784125501802
- ISBN-10
- 4125501807
- Price
- 2640 JPY
- Category
- 本/文学・評論/文芸作品/日本文学
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