商品の説明

The four works in this collection are dreamlike evocations of the inner lives of ordinary people. In the title story, two middle-aged friends go for a mountain hike and spend the night in a secluded ravine, where an eerie visitor and mystical forest sounds prompt reveries of lost chances and friendship. In "Grief Field" a dying man shares his pain in a near-hallucinatory interlude with his caring mistress. "The Bellwether," filled with animal imagery, is an ominous portrayal of Japanese urban humanity--a herd on the verge of stampede. In "On Nakayama Hill," a woman escaping a traumatic experience befriends an old man, who asks a strange favor that may bring them both a bit of happiness. In resonant, incantatory prose, these stories portray a world of sounds, sensations, and portents--all seething beneath the plain veneer of Japanese life.

商品の詳細

• Amazon.co.jp ランキング: #964096 / 本
• 発売日: 1997-09-01
• オリジナル言語: 日本語
• 寸法: .43" h x 5.53" w x 7.49" l, .38 ポンド
• 版型: ペーパーバック
• 142 ページ

内容説明
The four works in this collection are dreamlike evocations of the inner lives of ordinary People. In resonant, incantatory prose, these stories portray a world of sounds, sensations, and portents -- all seething beneath the plain veneer of Japanese life.

From the Publisher
Stone Bridge Press is a leading English-language publisher of Japanese literature in translation. Our ROCK SPRING COLLECTION OF JAPANESE LITERATURE features absorbing and important translations of classical and contemporary Japanese fiction and poetry. We believe that literature is a window into culture and society, and an expression of what is most peculiarly, and universally, human.

About the Author
Yoshikichi Furui is one of Japan's leading literary authors of the last two decades. He received the prestigious Akutagawa Prize in 1971 and the Yomiuri Literature Prize in 1990.

Meredith McKinney is a translator of modern and classical Japanese and a long-time resident of Kyoto. She now lives in Australia.