Fair Dalliance: Fifteen Stories by Yoshiyuki Junnosuke (.ePUB)
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Fair Dalliance: Fifteen Stories by Yoshiyuki Junnosuke
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Overview: Yoshiyuki Junnosuke was a sensual writer with a style reminiscent of novelists such as Tanizaki Jun’ichirō and Nagai Kafū. His works deal with dimensions of emotional purity in the relationships between men and women. Often the relationship is examined through the agency of the protagonist’s association with prostitutes.These brilliant new translations of selected short works by Yoshiyuki examine a wide range of human interaction, casting light on hidden depths of the human heart.
In the preface to New Writing in Japan, Mishima Yukio says of Yoshiyuki: “The delicacy of Yoshiyuki’s language and sensibility is probably more subtle and sophisticated than that of any Japanese writer since the war… The idée fixe of Japanese youth today—that love is impossible and impracticable—lies deep at the root of Yoshiyuki’s thinking.”
His elegant prose style is often likened to that of Albert Camus. Howard Hibbett said of Yoshiyuki (in Contemporary Japanese Literature: an Anthology of Fiction, Film and Other Writing Since 1945): “The cool, polished surface of his fiction faithfully reflects a world of mingled frivolity and futility… The urbane refinement of his astringent prose style is much admired.”
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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