Kenzaburo Oe, a Nobel laureate whose intense novels and defiant politics challenged a modern Japanese culture that he found morally vacant and dangerously tilted toward the same mind-set that led to catastrophe in World War II, died on March 3. He was 88. His publisher, Kodansha, announced the death on Monday. It did not specify a cause or say where he had died. Mr. Oe (pronounced OH-ay) was award
In reviewing the book before it was published, David Bevington, professor emeritus in the humanities at the University of Chicago and editor of “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (7th Edition),” called it “a revelation” for the sheer number of correlations with the plays, eclipsed only by the chronicles of Holinshed and Hall and Plutarch’s “Lives.” Martin Meisel, professor of dramatic lite
自分用メモ。Short Stories to Read Before Bed - The New York Times から。 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/18/books/review/short-stories-before-bed.html 登場人物や舞台が重なっている短編小説集。ほとんど90年代以降の新しめのもの。 読者から Elizabeth StroutOlive Kitteridge isbn:1849831556 Sherwood AndersonWinesburg, Ohio isbn:0140186557 これだけ1919年作 邦訳あり:ワインズバーグ、オハイオ(新潮文庫) isbn:4102201513 ワインズバーグ・オハイオ (講談社文芸文庫) isbn:4061975730 Tim O’BrienThe Things They
Sayaka Murata in a Tokyo convenience store similar to the one where the main character in her novel works.Credit...Kentaro Takahashi for The New York Times TOKYO — Keiko, a defiantly oddball 36-year-old woman, has worked in a dead-end job as a convenience store cashier in Tokyo for half her life. She lives alone and has never been in a romantic relationship, or even had sex. And she is perfectly h
When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. (This book was selected as one of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2017. For the rest of the list, click here.) PRAIRIE FIRES The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder By Caroline Fraser Illustrated. 625 pp. Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt. $35. Stretched past its capacity by the tu
Umberto Eco in Bologna, Italy, last year. As a semiotician, Mr. Eco studied signs and symbols.Credit...Roberto Serra/Iguana Press, via Getty Images Umberto Eco, an Italian scholar in the arcane field of semiotics who became the author of best-selling novels, notably the blockbuster medieval mystery “The Name of the Rose,” died on Friday at his home in Milan. He was 84. His Italian publisher, Bompi
Harper Lee on the porch of her parents' home in Monroeville, Ala., in 1961.Credit...Donald Uhrbrock/The LIFE Images Collection, via Getty Images We remember Atticus Finch in Harper Lee’s 1960 classic, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” as that novel’s moral conscience: kind, wise, honorable, an avatar of integrity who used his gifts as a lawyer to defend a black man falsely accused of raping a white woman i
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