Bullfight
by Yasushi Inoue
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The plot is built on a trio: Tsugami, his lover Sakiko and a business partner Tashiro. In post-Second World War Japan, Tsugami, the editor-in-chief of a newspaper, pushed by Tashiro, sets out to organise a bullfight. The project starts drowning in logistical issues, while Tsugami's relationship with Sakiko is also going under. Alone and focussed, Tsugami persisits in his bullfight plan, in a desperate and existential struggle, but the end goal itself is meaningless.Tags
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This is my second Inoue book and I was expecting an exciting story about bullfighting in an exotic location. But it turned out to be something different, yet rewarding in a quietly powerful way. In Japan, traditional bullfighting is not between man and beast rather two bulls against one another, it's slow and uneventful as the bulls spend a lot of time sizing one another up before charging - mostly it's about the betting. Despite that, shady and interesting characters, subterfuge and bombed-out post-war Japan make up the colorful backdrop to a story of fitful reconstruction. Probably the best overview is by Michael Orthofer at complete review.
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Already in this early work he writes with a very sure hand, but perhaps even more impressively he unfolds his story to best effect, the deceptively simple tale ultimately going much further than could have been expected. Recommended. (A-)
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Inoue Yasushi is considered to be the last of the Japanese masters, heir to the traditions of classical Chinese and Japanese literature. This journalist-turned-novelist writes poetry, historical fiction set in China and old Japan, and novels of modern Japan. His first fiction was published in 1948, and his choice of settings continues to reveal a show more superb feel for other times, places, and peoples. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Bullfight
- Original title
- 闘牛 (Tōgyū) (Tōgyū)
- Original publication date
- 1949
- First words*
- De aankondiging verscheen medio december 1946 met een vette kop in de Nieuwe Osaka Avondbode: vanaf 20 januari van het volgend jaar zou er drie dagen lang een stierensumotoernooi worden gehouden in het Hanshin-honkbalstadion,... (show all) gesponsord door de krant zelf.
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Daar, ploeterend en stampend in het moeras van het hopeloze verdriet dat het enorme ovale stadion vulde, zag ze een zielig roestbruin wezen zijn rare rondjes rennen.
- Original language*
- Japans
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 895.635 — Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages Literatures of East and Southeast Asia Japanese Japanese fiction 1945–2000
- LCC
- PL830 .N63 .T613 — Language and Literature Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Languages of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Japanese language and literature Japanese literature Individual authors and works
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- 6 — Dutch, English, French, German, Japanese, Russian
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- Paper, Ebook
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- 9
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