Narrative Form in the Novels of Nagai Kafu Stephen Snyder. The question of how much this misogynistic vision of sexual politics enters into Kafû's fiction is a complex one. Isoda Kòichi argues that Kafû's lifelong fascination with and ...
... Kafû Nagai , Kafû . A Strange Tale from East of the River and Other Stories . Rutland , Vt .: Charles E. Tuttle , 1972 . During the Rains and Flowers in the Shade : Two Novellas . Stan- ford , Calif .: Stanford University Press , 1994 ...
... Kafû's " classicist " lyrical elegies about these parts of Tokyo.29 Repeatedly , Kafû mourns the actual disappearance of the Yoshiwara , the decay of Yanagibashi , and , finally , the destruction of Tamanoi.30 He also attempts to link ...
... Kafû discusses the difference between Edo period maps and modern maps in their potential for acquiring knowledge about the city.26 Symbols of modern Tokyo such as the Western-style parliament, the imperial palace or train stations are ...
... Kafû delighted in the anima- tion of the station waiting room . This keen chroni- cler and connoisseur of Tokyo life opined the wait- ing room surpassed Tokyo's cafés in interest . How- ever , there remained no interior descriptions of ...
... Kafû the Scribbler by the issue of how to “read” Kafû's wartime diary, Danchòtei nichijò, given the revisions and editorial emendations that Kafû made after the war. (In a “Postscript on the Diary,” he exonerates Kafû of aspersions he ...
... Kafû . Kafû's reflections on the vestiges of an older Tokyo never succeeded in preserving any of the areas he wrote about , not did his beautifully lyrical and analytical musings on women ever win him an enduring relation- ship with one .
... Kafû, Shin kichôsha nikki [Diary of a Person Who Has Just Returned from Abroad], in Nagai Kafû, Nagai Kafû shû [Selected Works of Nagai Kafû], vol. 1 (Tokyo Chikuma Shobô, 1969), 205. 59. See Endô Shûsaku, Ryûgaku [Studying Abroad], in ...
... Kafû , Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press 2000 . “ Chapter 1 : Ôgai , Kafû , and the Limits of Fiction " , 8-33 . " Ôgai as Model , Fiction as ' Uso ” , 12–14 . “ Experiments in Narrative Desire ” , 14–19 . “ The Meaning Is the ...