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2 Books by Takako Takahashi
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Overview: Takako Takahashi (1932-2013) was a Japanese writer of fiction as well as translations of French literature. In the 1970s she was both prolific and successful as an author, publishing four novels and eight collections of short stories. In 1972, she received the Tamura Toshiko Literary Award for Sora no hate made (“To the end of the Sky”). She subsequently won the Women's Literature Award in 1977 for a set of linked short stories titled Ronri Uman (“Lonely Woman”) and the Yomiuri Prize for Ikari no ko (“Child of Rage”) in 1985, and the Mainichi Art Award for Kirei na hito (“Pretty person”) in 2003. Christianity and depravity characterize both The Wasteland and many of Takahashi’s other works.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
• The Wasteland
Explores the psychology of the modern Japanese woman and her urge to realize an inner self of latent sexuality, long suppressed in Japan's male-dominated society. Nobe Michiko, the novel's narcissistic protagonist, leaves ruined lives in her wake as she pursues her lustful goals. The novel was first published in 1980 at a time of explosive Japanese economic growth, which, in Takahashi's view, had created in Tokyo a wasteland of immorality and inhumanity. Yet it is a Christian novel, for the author was a devout Roman Catholic (indeed a one-time nun), and the title page epigraph from the Old Testament book of Hosea unmistakably mantles the narrative in a religious message: God is here to help if the wayward would but listen. But, do they listen?
• Lonely Woman
Replete with madwomen, murderers, musicians, and mystics, Lonely Woman dramatically interweaves the lives of five women in five individual stories. It remains Takako Takahashi’s most sustained and multifaceted fictional realization of her concept of “loneliness.” Her fiction typically features a woman for whom dreams and fantasies, crime, madness, sexual deviance, or occult pursuits serve as a temporary release from her society's definitions of female identity. The combination of surrealist, feminist, and religious themes in Takahashi’s work makes it unique among that of modern Japanese women writers.
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Overview: Takako Takahashi (1932-2013) was a Japanese writer of fiction as well as translations of French literature. In the 1970s she was both prolific and successful as an author, publishing four novels and eight collections of short stories. In 1972, she received the Tamura Toshiko Literary Award for Sora no hate made (“To the end of the Sky”). She subsequently won the Women's Literature Award in 1977 for a set of linked short stories titled Ronri Uman (“Lonely Woman”) and the Yomiuri Prize for Ikari no ko (“Child of Rage”) in 1985, and the Mainichi Art Award for Kirei na hito (“Pretty person”) in 2003. Christianity and depravity characterize both The Wasteland and many of Takahashi’s other works.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
• The Wasteland
Explores the psychology of the modern Japanese woman and her urge to realize an inner self of latent sexuality, long suppressed in Japan's male-dominated society. Nobe Michiko, the novel's narcissistic protagonist, leaves ruined lives in her wake as she pursues her lustful goals. The novel was first published in 1980 at a time of explosive Japanese economic growth, which, in Takahashi's view, had created in Tokyo a wasteland of immorality and inhumanity. Yet it is a Christian novel, for the author was a devout Roman Catholic (indeed a one-time nun), and the title page epigraph from the Old Testament book of Hosea unmistakably mantles the narrative in a religious message: God is here to help if the wayward would but listen. But, do they listen?
• Lonely Woman
Replete with madwomen, murderers, musicians, and mystics, Lonely Woman dramatically interweaves the lives of five women in five individual stories. It remains Takako Takahashi’s most sustained and multifaceted fictional realization of her concept of “loneliness.” Her fiction typically features a woman for whom dreams and fantasies, crime, madness, sexual deviance, or occult pursuits serve as a temporary release from her society's definitions of female identity. The combination of surrealist, feminist, and religious themes in Takahashi’s work makes it unique among that of modern Japanese women writers.
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