The little white attic

A list of essay collections and non-fiction books I’ve read lately:  (Works by the same authors are grouped together, but the titles are in ...

I’ve just got a kobo, and just finished the first book on it: Snow Country by Kawabata Yasunari, again translated by Edward G. Seidensticke...

1/ I don’t have much to say about Tanizaki’s prose (in Seidensticker’s translation). Some Prefer Nettles is mostly dialogue and Kaname’s th...

1/ Here is the blurb of Some Prefer Nettles by Junichiro Tanizaki:  “Kaname, a young man from Tokyo, escapes from a loveless marriage int...

1/ Shingo, the main character of the novel, is generally portrayed sympathetically but he’s not always likable. He’s not very tactful.  For...

1/ After Kokoro , I read 3 other books, without blogging about them: Sarashina Nikki or As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams by a lady known as T...

1/ A brief summary: on the plot level, Kokoro by Natsume Soseki is about a young unnamed student and his friendship with an older man that...

1/ Let’s talk about metaphors and similes in Kokoro .  “Instinctively I dreamed about women as objects of desire, but these were merely va...

I recently had some conversations with 2 friends on Twitter about The Age of Innocence , particularly the ending, which reminded me of a blo...

1/ After a short break (Jane Austen’s letters, edited by Deirdre Le Faye), I’m now reading another Japanese novel: Kokoro , the most acclaim...