Some Final Words of Advice
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- Synopsis
- The title Some Final Words of Advice is an apt one. Published in 1694 after Saikaku's death, the work provides a glimpse of Saikaku's last musings on the world in which he lived. Perhaps from a sense of urgency brought about by his failing eyesight and poor health, Saikaku here probes more deeply into "the hearts of men" than he had ever dared before. Behind the book's rich, often bawdy, humor, then, is the inkling of Saikaku yet unknown to the Western reader, a quality that translator Peter Nosco interprets as the bitterness of an aged author no longer able to fully separate in his mind the laughable antics he writes of from the real evils those antics present.
- Copyright:
- 1980
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 250 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781462918164
- Publisher:
- Charles E. Tuttle Company
- Date of Addition:
- 11/03/15
- Copyrighted By:
- Charles E. Tuttle Co, Inc.
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Language Arts
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.