This Scheming World

This Scheming World
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Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Total Pages : 132
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ISBN-10 : 9781462902606
ISBN-13 : 146290260X
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Book Synopsis This Scheming World by : Ihara Saikaku

Download or read book This Scheming World written by Ihara Saikaku and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic work of Japanese literature is considered the masterpiece of Japanese novelist Seken Munasanya. This Scheming World (Seken Munasanyo) was published in 1692, one year before the author’s death. It represents the culmination of Saikaku’s perceptive genius, and in structure, is one of the most consolidated of all his works. Most of the stories are told as incidents or episodes relating to New Year’s Eve, when in those days it was the custom to balance all debits and credits for the year. Saikaku portrays his characters with so lifelike a touch that, even though three centuries have passed since his time, it seems as if they were our contemporaries. Decidedly inclined towards the debtors, Saikaku has them slipping off to the homes of their favorite mistresses, leaving town on “sudden” business trips, or becoming actors for the day in order to deceive the ever–persistent year–end collectors. Some of his characters are successful, while some are beset by even more troubles in trying to avoid the collectors. The episodes are always frank, often with humor, and occasionally pathetic. But more than anything else, the seventeenth century day–to–day way of living by the commoners comes vividly to life.


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