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REVIEWS: An Artist of the Floating World
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From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and
author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day
– comes An Artist of the Floating Moon. In the face of the
misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to
devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty.
Instead, he put his work in the service of the imperialist
movement that led Japan into World War II. Now, as the mature
Ono struggles through the aftermath of that war, his memories of
his youth and of the floating world—the nocturnal world of
pleasure, entertainment, and drink—offer him both escape and
redemption, even as they punish him for betraying his early
promise. Indicted by society for its defeat and reviled for his
past aesthetics, he relives the passage through his personal
history that makes him both a hero and a coward but, above all,
a human being.
Characters: 49. Amazon rating: 4 stars. Genre: Fiction.
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 Tsuruoka. |
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 Nishiyama
Hill. |
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Manchuria. |
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Yamagata. |
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Tamagawa
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Higashimachi
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