Lonely Woman (Weatherhead Books on Asia) It remains Takako Takahashi's most sustained and multifaceted fictional realization of her concept of "loneliness. The combination of surrealist, feminist, and religious themes in Takahashi's work makes it unique among that of modern Japan
| TITLE | : | Lonely Woman (Weatherhead Books on Asia) |
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| RATING | : | 4.92 (179 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 0231131267 |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Hardcover |
| NUMBER of PAGES | : | 192 Pages |
| PUBLISH DATE | : | 2004-02-11 |
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Replete with madwomen, murderers, musicians, and mystics, Lonely Woman dramatically interweaves the lives of five women. It remains Takako Takahashi's most sustained and multifaceted fictional realization of her concept of "loneliness." Her fiction typically features a woman for whom dreams and fantasies, crime, madness, sexual deviance, or occult pursuits serve as a temporary release from her society's definitions of female identity. The combination of surrealist, feminist, and religious themes in Takahashi's work makes it unique among that of modern Japanese women writers.The five individually titled short stories that constitute Lonely Woman are linked by certain characters, themes, and plot elements. In the first story, "Lonely Woman," a series of arson incidents in her neighborhood causes a nihilistic young woman to become fascinated with the psychology of the person w
EDITORIAL :
From Booklist This collection of five linked stories, published in 1977 in Japan, where it won the annual Women's Literature Prize, presents a startling view of Japanese women as it explores the theme of loneliness. Takahashi's protagonists are generally young women who live alone, occasionally teetering on the edge of madness and reaching for bizarre or extreme remedies for their conditions, and their stories have elements of feminism, surrealism, and spirituality. In the title story, Sakiko--who prefers to watch her dates from a distance as they wait for her rather than to join them--becomes obsessed with an arsonist burning elementary schools to the point that she imagines herself setting the fires. In "The Oracle," young widow Yoko dreams of her late husband with other women and questions the perfection of her short marriage before resorting to her mother-in-law's cruel remedy. Only
REVIEW :
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