The wild goose / Mori Ōgai ; translated with an introduction by Burton Watson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mori, Ōgai, (1862-1922)

Contributor:

Watson, Burton, (1925- )

University of Michigan. Center for Japanese Studies, Publisher.

Series:

Michigan monograph series in Japanese studies ; no. 14.

Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies ; no. 14

Standardized Title:

Gan. English

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Medical students--Japan--Tokyo--Fiction.

Medical students.

Women--Japan--Tokyo--Fiction.

Women.

Tokyo (Japan)--Fiction.

Tokyo (Japan).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XIV, 166, [6] s.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 1996.

Summary:

Mori Ogai (1862-1922), one of the giants of modern Japanese literature, wrote The Wild Goose at the turn of the century. Set in the early 1880s, it was, for contemporary readers, a nostalgic return to a time when the nation was embarking on an era of dramatic change. Ogai's narrator is a middle-aged man reminiscing about an unconsummated affair, dating to his student days, between his classmate and a young woman kept by a moneylender. At a time when writers tended to depict modern, alienated male intellectuals, the characters of The Wild Goose are diverse, including not only students preparing for a privileged intellectual life and members of the plebeian classes who provide services to them, but also a pair of highly developed female characters. The author's sympathetic and penetrating portrayal of the dilemmas and frustrations faced by women in this early period of Japan's modernization makes the story of particular interest to readers today. Ogai was not only a prolific and popular writer, but also a protean figure in early modern Japan: critic, translator, physician, military officer, and eventually Japan's Surgeon General. His rigorous and broad education included the Chinese classics as well as Dutch and German; he gained admittance to the Medical School of Tokyo Imperial University at the age of only fifteen. Once established as a military physician, he was sent to Germany for four years to study aspects of European medicine still unfamiliar to the Japanese. Upon his return, he produced his first works of fiction and translations of English and European literature. Ogai's writing is extolled for its unparalleled style and psychological insight, nowhere better demonstrated than in The Wild Goose.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Introduction

The Wild Goose

One

Two

Three

Four

Five

Six

Seven

Eight

Nine

Ten

Eleven

Twelve

Thirteen

Fourteen

Fifteen

Sixteen

Seventeen

Eighteen

Nineteen

Twenty

Twenty-One

Twenty-Two

Twenty-Three

Twenty-Four.

Notes:

Na dok. data wyd. 1995. Data: [post 2006] ustalona na podstawie ISBN.

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ISBN:

9780472127467

0472127462

9780939512713

0939512718

OCLC:

1224978969

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access