Format:
xvii, 228 Seiten
ISBN:
9780824888831
,
9780824883409
Uniform Title:
Basho
Content:
Mt. Nanzan -- Tatara River -- Nakazu Harbor -- Mt. Bizan -- Nagoya Station -- Aburanokōji Sanjō -- Mitaka Shimorenjaku -- Tōnosawa -- Nishi Ogikubo -- Nogata -- Nerima Takamatsu-chō -- Mejiro Sekiguchidai-machi -- Nakano Honchō Dōri -- Hongō Ikizaka.
Content:
"Places is an English translation of Setouchi Jakuchō's 2001 memoir titled Basho ("Places") in Japanese. Born in 1922, Setouchi wrote this memoir when she was seventy-seven years old. In it she traces her journey back to the geographical locations that anchor memories and reminiscences of her childhood and scandalous earlier life as a novelist, seen through the filter of her later years as a Buddhist nun. The book is accordingly structured by place. Although the narrative proceeds roughly chronologically, it leaps about-the way thoughts and memories often do-connecting things across time and space. As a consciously constructed narrative, it calls to mind and has much in common with Vladimir Nabokov's Speak Memory-which he calls 'an autobiography revisited.'"--
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780824890254
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780824890261
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780824890278
Language:
English
Keywords:
Setouchi, Harumi 1922-2021
;
Autobiografie
;
Fiktionale Darstellung
Author information:
Dalby, Liza Crihfield 1950-
