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Not a Song Like Any Other - An Anthology of Writings by Mori Ogai (Hardcover, New)
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Not a Song Like Any Other - An Anthology of Writings by Mori Ogai (Hardcover, New)
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The literary writings of Mori Ogai (1862-1922), one of the giant
figures of the Meiji period, have become increasingly well known to
readers of English through a number of recent translations of his
novels and short stories. Ogai was more than a writer of fiction,
however. He has long been regarded in Japan as one of the most
influential intellectual and artistic figures of his period,
possessing a wide range of enthusiasms and concerns, many developed
through his early European experiences. Not a Song Like Any Other
attempts to reveal the full range of Ogai's creative endeavor,
providing trenchant examples of his remarkable range, from
dramatist and storyteller to poet and polemicist, all translated
into English for the first time. The first of seven parts, ""The
Author Himself,"" offers a variety of self portraits and other
insights into Ogai's character through his essays - laconic,
ironic, detached - written over the course of his career. ""Mori
Ogai in Germany"" reveals his responses to living in Germany in the
1880s and seeing for the first time how his country was being
interpreted from the outside. It includes his celebrated and
spirited defense of his country, originally published in a German
newspaper. ""Mori Ogai and the World of Politics"" relates his
uneasy reactions to Japanese society at a later phase in his
career. The fourth section, ""Mori Ogai and the Visual Arts,""
provides some of the first information available in English
concerning his life-long interest in painting and other aspects of
the visual arts in the Japan of his day. Ogai's theatrical
experiments are briefly chronicled in Part 5, ""Mori Ogai and the
Contemporary Japanese Theatre."" ""Four Unusual Stories"" offers
new evidence of the range of the writer's interests and ambitions.
The final section includes some of the first translations of Ogai's
poetry available in English. Not a Song Like Any Other, which
includes the work of twelve translators, brings a whole new breadth
of knowledge concerning Ogai's role as a highly committed artist
and intellectual in one of modern Japan's most dynamic periods.
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