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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 1 / 2013  
         
  Article:   BOOK REVIEWS - NAGAI KAFŪ, A STRANGE TALE FROM EAST OF THE RIVER, TRANSLATION RODICA FRENŢIU, CLUJ-NAPOCA: CASA CĂRŢII DE ȘTIINŢĂ, 2011, 85 P..

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  Abstract:  Japanese literature has a special force of seduction which will eventually entrap its reader and turn the pleasure of reading into an addiction. Nagai Kafū, esteemed writer of the early 20th century, in his A Strange Tale from East of the River (Bokutō Kidan) creates a world particular of the Japanese sensibility, a world with which some may encounter difficulties to relate, especially those new to this area of literature. The novel, published in 1937, surprises in its structure. The most appealing compo¬¬sitional device is the insertion of a novel within the novel (Shissō / Disappearance) and that of other literary fragments and poems. Being written as a first person narrative, the autobiographical touch strengthens the well-acclaimed sensation of authenticity and comes to the reader’s aid in his process of connecting to the fictional world depicted. The oscillation between the ‘I’ from the frame novel and that from the inner novel denotes a characteristic of the Japanese prose and verse, namely ambiguity.  
         
     
         
         
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