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Jiro Osaragi (1897–1973)

Autor de Homecoming

63+ Obras 230 Miembros 4 Reseñas

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Obras de Jiro Osaragi

Homecoming (1948) 60 copias
The Journey (1953) 44 copias
Les 47 rônins (2007) 6 copias
風船 3 copias
旅路 3 copias
雪崩 3 copias
帰郷 2 copias
四十八人目の男 上 (1988) 2 copias
四十八人目の男 下 (1988) 2 copias
鞍馬天狗天狗廻状 (1989) 2 copias
炎の柱織田信長 上 (1987) 2 copias
炎の柱織田信長 下 (1987) 2 copias
お化け旗本 2 copias
宗方姉妹 2 copias
大佛次郎集 (1972) 2 copias
RESAN 1 copia
猫 (中公文庫) (2009) 1 copia
Tengu, Tome 1 (2005) 1 copia

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Nombre legal
Nojiri, Haruhiko
野尻清彦
Otros nombres
大佛次郎 (pen name = Osaragi Jirō)
Fecha de nacimiento
1897-10-04
Fecha de fallecimiento
1973-04-30
Género
male
Nacionalidad
Japan
Lugar de nacimiento
Yokohama, Japan
Lugares de residencia
Yokohama, Japan (birth)
Kamakura, Japan
Educación
Tokyo Imperial University
Ocupaciones
writer
Relaciones
Nojiri, Hōei (brother)
Premios y honores
Order of Culture (1964)

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My copy. First published in 1960. This novel gives an excellent look at life in Japan in the period of transition from United States occupation.
 
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seeword | otra reseña | Aug 25, 2015 |
It seems like it took me so long to finish this book, only 340 pages, but dense and slow moving.

Set in post WWII Japan, during the American occupation. A group of several characters, over the span of several months. It is about "journeys" in general and specifically.

In Japanese tradition, life is a journey "without destination". Much is made of the Western (American) influence to change this to one with a destination. By this the author means money. Over the course of the book most of the characters lose there traditional morals in the pursuit of money - "filling their rice bowl" in one way or another.

Specifically one of the characters, Soroko, tries to replicate a hike that his son Akira once made thru the Japanese Alps. Akira, a soldier, had died during the war and this hike is the father's attempt to connect with the sorrow of his son's death.

Throughout the book there is a sadness for a lost Japan. The author was born in 1898 and died in 1973 so he experienced this time period first hand.
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catarina1 | otra reseña | Jan 9, 2011 |
Very realisticaccount of the return of a Japanese man from formerly occupied East Asia after WWII
and his encounter withawoman he had known during the war. GIves a strong sense of the bitter
feelings in Japan just after the war
 
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antiquary | otra reseña | Dec 28, 2007 |
"The author adopted many different pen names in his younger days. 'Osaragi Jiro' had its origins in the mid-1920s when he was living near the Daibutsu-Great Buddha-in Kamakura and writing the historical novel, Hayabusa no Genji, for the magazine, Pocket. (The Chinese characters denoting 'Osaragi' are usually read as 'Daibutsu.') The name stuck."
 
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languagehat | otra reseña | May 17, 2006 |

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Estadísticas

Obras
63
También por
1
Miembros
230
Popularidad
#97,994
Valoración
½ 3.7
Reseñas
4
ISBNs
29
Idiomas
4

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