Wayfarer
10 best books like Wayfarer (Natsume Sōseki): Rivalry: A Geisha's Tale, Snow Country, Six Records of a Floating Life, Leyendas, The Broken Commandment, Rimas, Por que Mahler? / Why Mahler?: Como un hombre y diez sinfonias cambiaron el mundo / How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed the World, Shostakovich: Su Vida, Su Obra, Su Epoca (Spanish Edition), Ravel, The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories
| Author | Kafū Nagai |
| ISBN | 0231141181 |
Originally published in 1918, Rivalry is regarded as the masterpiece of Nagai Kafu, a Japanese novelist known for his brilliant renderings of Tokyo in the early years of modern Japan. Stephen Snyder offers the first English translation of the complete, uncensored text, which has long been celebrated...
| Author | Yasunari Kawabata |
| ISBN | 0679761047 |
Nobel Prize recipient Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer's masterpiece, a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan.
At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing every surface, Shimamura, a wealthy dilettante...
Six Records of a Floating Life
| Author | Shen Fu |
| ISBN | 0140444297 |
Six Records of a Floating Life (1809) is an extraordinary blend of autobiography, love story and social document written by a man who was educated as a scholar but earned his living as a civil servant and art dealer. In this intimate memoir, Shen Fu recounts the domestic and romantic joys of his marriage...
| Author | Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer |
El cuento fantástico del romanticismo español culmina en la prosa de las Leyendas, donde el autor se muestra a la altura de los grandes clásicos del género. Los logros de la obra no siempre han sido debidamente apreciados, sin embargo, porque la mayoría de las ediciones copia la que los amigos de...
| Author | Tōson Shimazaki |
| ISBN | 0860081915 |
Espeluznante, a la par que bellísima, imagen de uno de los lados de la sociedad nipona que menos nos gusta considerar: su clasismo y su racismo, representado en esta ocasión en el trato que se da a los "etas", o miembros de castas inferiores.
Toson, en la estela de Zola, nos da una visión de Japón...
| Author | Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer |
| ISBN | 8475058647 |
GUSTAVO ADOLFO BÉCQUERNacido en Sevilla en 1836, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer es sin duda el poeta más universal y definitivo del siglo XIX español, y por supuesto uno de los que mayor influencia ha tenido en los poetas más destacados del siglo XX.Las Rimas de Bécquer han acompañado a los lectores...
Por que Mahler? / Why Mahler?: Como un hombre y diez sinfonias cambiaron el mundo / How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed the World
| Author | Norman Lebrecht |
| ISBN | 8420651214 |
Norman Lebrecht (born 11 July 1948 in London) is a British commentator on music and cultural affairs and a novelist. He was a columnist for The Daily Telegraph from 1994 until 2002 and assistant editor of the Evening Standard from 2002 until 2009. On BBC Radio 3, he has presented lebrecht.live from 2000...
Shostakovich: Su Vida, Su Obra, Su Epoca (Spanish Edition)
| Author | Krzysztof Meyer |
| ISBN | 8420686751 |
Calificado justamente de « cronista de su epoca, hay pocos compositores tan profundamente enraizados en su pais y en el contexto politico, cultural y social de su tiempo como Shostakovich. No obstante, quedan muchas ambiguedades en torno a Shostakovich y al contenido programatico de su musica....
| Author | Vladimir Jankélévitch |
| ISBN | 2020234904 |
Jankélévitch. The first time I saw him, it was on TV, the famous "Apostrophe" where all the greatest author came. It was for 3 little books "Le je ne sais-quoi et le preque rien". A philosoph interested in small things without importance but also death and pure and impure. Short books but difficult reading....
The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories
| Author | Yasunari Kawabata |
| ISBN | 1887178945 |
“When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.”
― Tennessee Williams, Camino Real
The Dancing Girl of Izu
looking from afar
wishing to break the silence
that haunts them tonight
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