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Fosco Maraini (1912–2004)

Author of Meeting with Japan

52+ Works 755 Members 11 Reviews 2 Favorited

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Works by Fosco Maraini

Meeting with Japan (1958) 200 copies, 2 reviews
Secret Tibet (1952) — Author — 154 copies, 2 reviews
The Great Cities: Tokyo (1976) 68 copies, 1 review
Japan Patterns of Continuity (1971) — Author — 54 copies
Case, amori, universi (1999) 52 copies
Gnosi delle fànfole. Con CD Audio (1988) 36 copies, 1 review
Jerusalem, rock of ages (1969) 24 copies
The island of the fisherwomen (1962) — Author — 22 copies, 1 review
Where Four World's Meet: Hindu Kush 1959 (1964) 22 copies, 1 review
Giappone. Mandala (2006) 11 copies, 1 review
Gli ultimi pagani (1997) 10 copies
Jerusalem Rock of Ages (1969) 3 copies
Il nuvolario (1995) 3 copies, 1 review
Pellegrino in Asia (2007) 3 copies
la ragazza con la treccia (1992) 2 copies
Der frühe Tag : Asienfotos (1992) — Photographer & Author — 2 copies
Die Göttin des Türkis : der Weg zum Cho Oyu (1988) — Introduction, bibliography and notes — 1 copy
Le Japon 1 copy
Nippon 1 copy

Associated Works

Storia segreta dei Mongoli (2000) — Introduction, some editions — 5 copies

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14 reviews
Another great volume in the Time-Life Great Cities series. The great feature of these volumes is that they are authored by creative writers who have had a long and intimate knowledge and association with their subject matter. This volume is no exception, and describes the inner life and workings of the world's biggest urban conglomeration in an intimate, personal, often profoundly moving, and always perceptive manner, the whole work illuminated by the luminous language. Of course, coming show more from 1976, that description may not be recognizable today, but even so, it serves as a valuable marker of a stage in the city's development that, perhaps, many others in the developing world will find immediately relevant. show less
Un'opera la cui anima è una lunga peregrinazione che tocca città e campagna, piccoli villaggi e grandi città, racconto di un viaggio nel quale si intrecciano politica, religione, arte a realizzare un vero e proprio affresco della società tradizionale giapponese.Maraini, dotato di squisita saggezza e sensibilità, raramente si lascia condizionare dagli stereotipi. Il suo desiderio di comprendere l'autentico carattere giapponese gli fa abbandonare i tipici atteggiamenti occidentali di show more "confronto-opposizione" con realtà altre. Sostenuto da una solida formazione antropologica, analizza gli eventi senza fornire personali giudizi di valore, ma puntando piuttosto l'attenzione allo sviluppo dei valori dell'etnia giapponese, al loro manifestarsi e al loro realizzarsi. Da leggere. show less
Maraini's book of an expedition led by Prof. Giuseppe Tucci, though at the time he didn't know it, was a last glimpse of the theocratic state which was to be demolished shortly afterwards by the Chinese occupation. As such it is a wonderful evocation of a past civilization before it fell beneath the onslaught of 20th century technology and politics. The author includes an introduction to the religious background of both aristocrats and simple herdsmen, and the varied physical and spiritual show more influences which had formed the unique Tibetan approach to theology. The 60 black and white photographs (curiously called on the title page "double colour plates" which in this edition at least they are not) were taken with particular care, a table being appended which gives details of camera, lens, film and exposure. The Introductory Letter by Bernard Berenson says that it is one of only a very few books which take the reader along with the narrator, to experience the sights, sounds and smells of the journey. There is a two-page reading list which the author says are "likely to be found in good libraries" show less
"Trent’anni di studio amorevole del Giappone, del suo popolo, della sua lingua e della sua cultura sono stati una progressiva scoperta dell’unità e della continuità che sussistono sotto una superficie di confusione e mutamento […]
Il quadro che si offre talvolta è meraviglioso, talvolta spaventoso per le evidenti tensioni interne che sembrano giungere al punto di rottura […] Ma in profondità si percepisce qualcosa di monolitico che funge da struttura portante, tenendo assieme show more tutte le componenti di questa macchina complessa. Shock, scossoni, urti sono assorbiti e in ultima istanza convertiti in stimoli verso un ulteriore progresso".Fosco Maraini (1971) show less

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Harald Sund Photographer
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Helmut Salzinger Contributor
Thomas Kaiser Contributor
Giovanni Blumer Contributor
Lucia Eppelsheim Translator
Eric Mosbacher Translator
Bernard Berenson Introduction
Han van Lent Translator
Angélique Lévi Translator
Bettina Berger Translator
H.G. Preconi Translator

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