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cerealandchoccymilk · 6 months

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idk if anyone here gives a shit but reading about the lives of japanese modern era writers is so fun...

(this blue mackarel/peach blossom incident is the most famous fight between dazai osamu and nakahara chuya)

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lets-get-lit · 3 months

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I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.

- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

#quotes #books #literature #lit #classics #academia #light academia #dark academia #chaotic academia #book #book quotes #quotation #Haruki Murakami #Murakami #Norwegian Wood #Fiction #Romance #Japanese Literature

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whilereadingandwalking · 4 months

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Genji is not a perfect person, but there’s a purity to him, a beauty that’s clearly meant to be lauded, particularly in contrast to later chapters. He’s in love with love, a true romantic, and his sometimes unwise affairs are motivated by a true sense of love. He never abandons one of his lovers, which in this time is crucial. No matter the shame it brings to himself, he tries to find a way to honor the women he’s fallen for. He’s charming. No one can not love him, or ultimately forgive him his faults.

The age of Tale of Genji had strict rules of romance—of how flirtations worked (largely intermediaries and poetry), of how commitments worked, of how aloof vs. present it was appropriate to be (it’s good to commit but bad to hoard or become jealous). It was possible to love too much. Genji is accused of this, but he always remembers to care for the people he is responsible for—once he grows up that is.

Early in the text, he neglects his wife, and he also neglects “the Rokujo lady.” The Rokujo lady becomes so jealous and enraged that her spirit begins to sicken his wife. This ghost returns more than once over the course of the text. She has grown sick from obsession and neglect, and Genji pays the price for it. It’s part of what motivates him to always care for the women he romances for the rest of his life.

Later, in the “Uji” chapters, young Kaoru and prince Niou also love too much. Niou is impulsive like Genji but also flighty, and Kaoru is serious like Genji but also obsessive. Both men pursue the women at Uji with insistence that the text can’t quite forgive as it could for Genji. Both, somehow, go too far—perhaps in their attempts to hoard, or in their impatience.

#tale of genji #murasaki shikibu #japanese books #japanese lit #classic books #my book reviews

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hiyutekivigil · 3 months

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haruki murakami, kafka on the shore, p. 11

#hiyutekivigil #haruki murakami #kafka on the shore #japanese literature #literature #lit #quotes #words #books #academia #academia aesthetic #dark academia #light academia #chaotic academia #classic academia #dead poets society

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newvision · 4 months

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No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

#no longer human #dazai osamu #osamu dazai #japanese literature #literature #poetry #litblr #Mine #classic lit #Classic literature #excerpts #literature excerpts

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benitariums · 4 months

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Is trustfulness a sin, I wonder? … God, I ask you. Is trustfulness a sin?

— no longer human, dazai osamu

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literaturecravings · 1 year

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—Ramsgate: 31st May 1876, The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

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duskofastraeus · 6 months

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day 3/100 of productivity

Today I wore Givenchy’s L’Interdit Rouge, truly a magnificent scent for a gloomy Sunday…

Tasks accomplished today:

Astrophysics exercises

Revise lab report and read lab book

Italian translation

Waves material revision + ODEs

French podcast

Chinese study

{Notes of the day: I’ve been in one of the worst reading slumps as of late, I have an entire list of ancient history and philosophy of physics books to finish before exam season and yet I have barely touched them… I also saw some really helpful Latin grammar/vocabulary textbooks which I’ll have to postpone for next semester since I hope to finish my first integrated Chinese textbook before the ending of the one we are confronting as I write this…}

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yumaisbored · 6 months

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my version of flirting is promoting my favourite authors but then getting distracted and going on a rant about classical japanese literature that turns into a discussion of translation as a field that morphs into descriptions of the beauty of language as an art form

#and no i will not change my ways #japanese literature #literature #classic lit #academia #translation

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therealdostoevsky · 1 year

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i feel like i read norwegian wood at the wrong time

#it's the same as right person wrong time #i shall call this #right book wrong time #norwegian wood #haruki murakami #murakami #bookblr #litblr #dark academia #dark academia books #books #donna tartt #books and literature #classic lit #classic literature #lit #japanese literature

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the-portrait-of-seraph · 1 year

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It's been a while, here's what I've been up to:

So, two words, college applications. I've been preparing for applications next semester, which means I have to take allll my APs and other things, as well as prepare for my school play. I know I should be managing my time better, but hey, it is what it is.

They dropped a new Dazai translation to the set and I couldn't resist buying it. Very very excited to start it, I'll try to finish and give a review by the end of this week! The translator isn't Keene, but I have my expectations hehe

The Dazai Set is now complete??? I don't know if New Directions will add more, but if there are others to collect, just know I will have already bought them haha

Hope all of you have been doing well!

#icaruia reads 📖#booksbooksbooks #books #japanese authors #dazai osamu #no longer human #flowers of buffoonery #japanese literature #reading #literature #modern literature #classical lit

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miscellaneous-03 · 9 months

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Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness. Everything passes. That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell. Everything passes.

- Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human