UID:
almahu_9949597495302882
Format:
1 online resource :
,
illustrations, maps.
ISBN:
9780231537452 (ebook) :
Series Statement:
Translations from the Asian classics
Uniform Title:
Sarashina nikki.
Content:
A thousand years ago, a young Japanese girl embarked on a journey from the wild East Country to the capital. She began a diary that she would continue to write for the next 40 years and compile later in life, bringing lasting prestige to her family. Some aspects of the author's life and text seem curiously modern. She married late and identified more as a writer than as a wife and mother. Enthralled by romantic fiction, she wrote extensively about the disillusioning blows that reality can deal to fantasy. 'The Sarashina Diary' is a portrait of the writer as reader and a tribute to the power of reading to shape one's expectations and aspirations.
Note:
Translated from the Japanese.
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9780231167185
Language:
English
URL:
Columbia scholarship online
