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The Wild Geese (Mori novel)
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Wikipedia article
Mori gai's classical novel, 'The Wild Geese' or 'The Wild Goose' (191113, 'Gan'), was first published in serial form in Japan, and tells the story of unfulfilled love set against a background of social change and Westernization."Mori, gai", in 'Bent's Reader's Encyclopedia', Fourth Edition (1996), New York: HarperCollins. The story is set in 1880 Tokyo. The novel contains commentary on the changing situation between the Edo and Meiji periods. The characters of the novel are diverse, including not only students preparing for a privileged intellectual life and commoners who provide services to them, but also a pair of highly developed female characters. Mori sympathetically portrays the dilemmas and frustrations faced by women in this early period of Japan's modernization.
The novel was made into a movie of the same name by Shir Toyoda in 1953, starring Hideko Takamine as Otama.
Synopsis
Suezo, a moneylender, is tired of life with his nagging wife, so he decides to take a mistress. Otama, the only child of a widower merchant, wishing to provide for her aging father, is forced by poverty to become the moneylender's mistress. When Otama learns the truth about Suezo, she feels betrayed, and hopes to find a hero to rescue her. Otama meets Okada, a medical student, who becomes both the object of her desire and the symbol of her rescue.
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Release details
* 'The Wild Geese', trans. Ochiai Kingo and Sanford Goldstein. Boston: Tuttle Publishing, 1959, 128 pages,
* 'The Wild Goose', trans. Kingo Ochiai and Sanford Goldstein, Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc, 1991, 119 pages,
* 'The Wild Goose', trans. Burton Watson. 1995. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies, 1998,
* 'The Wild Goose', trans. Meredith McKinney. Finlay Lloyd Publications, 2014,
Category:1911 novels
Category:Japanese serial novels
Category:Novels by Mori gai
Category:Novels first published in serial form
Category:Novels set in Tokyo
Category:Fiction set in 1880
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