... Kafû's attitude toward pleasures was grounded on what might be called the ethics within beauty and vice . In Kafû's demi - monde literature , women are treated as a tool for men's pleasures , while in Jun'ichirô's works , men are only ...
J. Scott Miller. NAGAI Kafû Nagai , Kafû . A Strange Tale from East of the River , and Other Stories . Rutland , VT : Tuttle , 1972 . " During the Rains " and " Flowers in the Shade " : Two Novellas . Stanford , CA : Stanford University ...
... Kafû Kafû the Scribbler , as he called himself— sang the swan - song of old Edo , which he knew foot by foot , especially the low town ( Shitamachi ) : ' Ever since I was a child , I have loved to walk about the city ' . Nobody better ...
... Kafû who had just returned from Bohemian life and especially charmed by Parisian life , must have been utterly unbearable . Realistic critics ac- cused Kafû of advocating superficial dilettantism . In a way , he was attempting the ...
... Kafû . Vol . 3 : Amerika monogatari [ Stories from America ] . Nagai Kafû zenshû [ Complete works of Nagai Kafû ] . Tokyo : Chuokoronsha , 1949 ; first published , 1908 . Seiyû nisshi shô [ Diary of my trip to the West , abridged ] ...
... Kafû spent his time here . His story " Bokutô kidan ” ( , A Strange Tale from East of the River ) , written in 1935 and published in the Asahi shinbun from April to June of 1937 , is set in this area . The Tamanoi , according to Edward ...
... Kafû has never been afraid to give his plots improbable turns . Drizzling Rain ( 1921 ) is a confession of utter dejection . The changes brought by the World War have killed the old city- and , though Kafû cannot have known it , the ...
... Kafû avait aussi << traduit » Nana , en septembre de la même année , deux mois plutôt que La Bête humaine . Il avait en effet publié une « traduction » de Nana , sous le titre L'Actrice Nana , roman , toujours sans préciser qu'il s ...