so adorable to see Ogai from BSD in the thumbnails, enjoyed your murakami rankings! keep it up ^_^

I just finished this (the English translation). It was a pleasant concise read with little fluff and 90% of the paragraphs have a necessary function. For its length, it is remarkably good at giving ample insights into each character’s psyche; even the minor characters (Ishihara, Otama’s maid and okusan’s maid) were given enough liveliness. The author is as shrewd as Suezo for (in my opinion cleverly) choosing a narrator’s perspective which allowed for the aforementioned psychological insights and (yet) at the same time he did have to put effort into making a coherent sequential arrangement (narrator → Okada → Suezo → the father → Otama → Otsune etc.) before he could execute the main plot. One may notice the lack of Okada’s psychological insights, but this shortcoming is perfectly implicitly justified and (un)executed. I highly recommend this short story for the reasons above even if the reader isn’t familiar with much Japanese culture and history at all (as I am not).

Después de leer "La moneda de oro" me enamoré del trabajo de Ogai ❤

I liked “The Wild Geese” when I read it, but that was a while ago. Just now I’m reading “The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories” and the volume contains one story by Ogai that I didn’t know: “The Last Testament of Okitsu Yagoemon”, which shows his roots in traditional Japanese culture. I found it a subtle but well crafted short story!

Just bought this book about a week ago, what a perfect time for this video

@ABooktubeChannel

2 жыл бұрын

Let me know how you like it!

Loved the book! Thank you very much for your suggestion!

I finished this book I really like it 🥰. That's my first time reading book from Mori Ogai❤

Help the little bsd mori

In 1953, wasn't there a film adaptation of this book?

@hillsonn

5 ай бұрын

Yes, the Toyoda Shiro film from 1953 is an adaptation of this novel, which is called 'Gan' (雁) in Japanese.

Have you read «Life for sale» by Yukio Mishima?

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Жыл бұрын

Yes I have! I think I talk about it in the Mishima tierlist video

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