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Carregando... Five Women Who Loved Love (1685)de Ihara Saikaku
  
Nenhum(a) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.   Natt90 | Jan 17, 2023 |  It's a set of five love stories set in contemporary 1680s Japan - in fact, all based more or less on real life, where those who loved outside their social class would often face the death penalty (in four of the five stories, one or both of the protagonists is executed). I found it a really easy quick read, markedly more realistic than, say, Pilgrim's Progress (which was published the previous year). The last of the five stories is particularly interesting - Gengobei, a monk, is heartbroken by the deaths of two young boyfriends in quick succession; Oman, a young girl, falls in love with him and disguises herself as a boy to get into his bed; Gengobei discovers he likes her too, and they live happily ever after (after certain dramatic tribulations). It's the only story of the five with a happy ending. Sex is a universal, and probably tales of doomed love have fascinated humans since we were first able to gossip about how Ugg and Obba wanted to get together despite being from different caves, but here we have a fascinating snapshot of a changing Japan, a growing bourgeoisie not entirely happy at the policing of sexuality by the authorities. The translation by Wm. Theodore de Bary is maybe a bit old-fashioned and a twenty-first century treatment would be fun to read. (  ) nwhyte | Jul 14, 2019 | ) Ambo_O | Oct 21, 2014 | Il volume raccoglie cinque storie di amanti dal tragico epilogo, prive di intenti moralistici e tese ad esaltare gli aspetti erotici e le passioni. Nei racconti sono le relazioni proibite o censurate dalla morale a scatenare gli eventi. Saikaku tesse le sue storie attraverso la tecnica definita felicemente da Gian Carlo Calza "a volo d'uccello", consistente nel focalizzare rapidamente gli stati d'animo dei protagonisti, con bruschi passaggi dall'uno all'altro, per enfatizzare l'instabilità dei sentimenti, la precarietà dei rapporti amorosi. Con Saikaku si sivluppa il genere dei racconti del "mondo fluttuante", in un periodo di grande fermento nella società nipponica su cui le istituzioni tentano a fatica di imporre regole sempre più rigide. (  ) cometahalley | Jan 1, 2014 |  ) MarysGirl | Sep 4, 2010 | sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
"Five charming novellas...which have astonishing freshness, color, and warmth." --The New Yorker First published in 1686, this collection of five novellas was an immediate bestseller in the bawdy world that was Genroku Japan, and the book's popularity has increased with age, making it today a literary classic like Boccaccio's Decameron, or the works of Rabelais. The book follows five determined women in their always amorous, erotic and usually illicit adventures. The five heroines are Onatsu, already wise in the ways of love the tender age of sixteen; Osen, a faithful wife until unjustly accused of adultery; Osan, a Kyoto beauty who falls asleep in the wrong bed; Oshichi, willing to burn down a city to meet her samurai lover; and Oman, who has to compete with handsome boys to win her lover's affections. But the book is more than a collection of skillfully told erotic tales, for "Saikaku...could not delve into the inmost secrets of human life only to expose them to ridicule or snickering prurience. Obviously fascinated by the variety and complexity of human love, but retaining always a sense of its intrinsic dignity...he is both a discriminating and compassionate judge of his fellow man." Saikaku's style, as allusive as it is witty, as abbreviated as it is penetrating, is a challenge that few translators have dared to face, and certainly never before with the success here achieved in a translation that recaptures the heady flavor of the original. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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 Google Books — Carregando...GênerosClassificação decimal de Dewey (CDD)895.6332Literature Literature of other languages Asian (east and south east) languages Japanese Japanese fiction Edo period 1603–1868 1603–1772Classificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos E.U.A. (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia: (3.63)
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