In Light of Shadows: More Gothic Tales by Izumi Kyoka (.ePUB)
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In Light of Shadows: More Gothic Tales by Kyoka Izumi, Charles Shiro Inouye (translator)
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Overview: In Light of Shadows is the long-awaited second volume of short fiction by the Meiji-Taishō writer Izumi Kyōka. It includes the famous novella “A Song by Lantern Light,” the bizarre, anti-psychological story “A Quiet Obsession,” and Kyōka’s hauntingly erotic final work, “The Heartvine.”
Translator Charles Inouye places Kyōka’s “literature of shadows” within a worldwide gothic tradition even as he refines its Japanese context. Underscoring Kyōka’s relevance for a contemporary international audience, Inouye adjusts Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s evaluation of Kyōka as the most Japanese of authors by demonstrating how the writer’s paradigm of the suffering heroine can be linked to his exposure to Christianity, to a beautiful American woman, and to the aesthetic of blood sacrifice.
In Light of Shadows masterfully conveys the magical allusiveness and elliptical style of this extraordinary writer, who Mishima Yukio called “the only genius of modern Japanese letters.”
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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