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Fumiko Enchi Livres

    2 octobre 1905 – 12 novembre 1986

    Fumiko Enchi, nom de plume de Fumiko Ueda, fut une dramaturge et romancière japonaise de la période Shōwa. Sa première exposition à diverses littératures et l'initiation aux œuvres classiques japonaises par sa grand-mère ont profondément façonné sa voix littéraire. Inspirée par les traditions théâtrales et une fascination pour l'esthétisme, Enchi a créé des récits qui explorent des relations humaines complexes et des profondeurs psychologiques. Son écriture unit le patrimoine littéraire classique japonais à une sensibilité résolument moderne.

    Masks
    The waiting years

    • The waiting years

      • 204pages
      • 8 heures de lecture
      4,1(168)Évaluer

      Published for the first time in the UK, one of Japan's greatest modern female writers In the late nineteenth century, Tomo, the faithful wife of a government official, is sent to Tokyo, where a heartbreaking task is awaiting her. From among hundreds of geishas and daughters offered up for sale by their families she must select a respectable young girl to become her husband's new lover. Externally calm, but torn apart inside, Tomo dutifully begins the search for an official mistress. The Waiting Years was awarded Japan's most prestigious literary award, the Noma Prize.

      The waiting years

    • Masks

      • 156pages
      • 6 heures de lecture
      3,7(2587)Évaluer

      'Clear and powerful' (Kirkus), Masks is perhaps Fumiko Enchi's finest work and her first to be translated into English. In this stunning and subtle novel about seduction and infidelity in latter-day Japan and about the destructive force of feminine jealousy and resentment, Mieko Togano, a handsome and cultivated woman in her 50s, manipulates--for her own bizarre purposes--the relationship between her widowed daughter-in-law, Yasuko, and the two men in love with her.

      Masks