BOOKS - Tales of Tears and Laughter: Short Fiction of Medieval Japan
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Tales of Tears and Laughter: Short Fiction of Medieval Japan
Author: Virginia Skord
Year: October 31, 1991
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 42 MB
Language: English
Year: October 31, 1991
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 42 MB
Language: English
The stories in this collection constitute just a small portion of a vast body of some four hundred short narratives known as otogizoshi. They represent a cross section of medieval Japan in its richness and complexity, a panoply of life teeming with all the possibilities and contradictions of the age.