Before the Dawn

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University of Hawaii Press, 1987 - Literary Criticism - 798 pages
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An historical novel portrays the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate and the changes in Japanese life after the arrival of Commodore Perry.

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I generally do not like sad novels, but this is one of the most wonderful books I have ever read, even though its hero dies insane with despair over the betrayal of his life's work. It is an ... Read full review

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Before the Dawn
Tōson Shimazaki
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Tōson Shimazaki,William E. Naff
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About the author (1987)

Poet and novelist Shimazaki Toson was raised on an old mountain road well-traveled in feudal Japan. As a young man, he lived in Tokyo, then retreated to the northern city of Sendai and lived in Paris during World War I. The poetry of Shimazaki's youth was inspired by the English romanticists. Written in a new, freer style, it set off a movement that eventually liberated Japanese verse from the dominance of tanka andhaiku. As a novelist, Shimazaki is perhaps best known for The Family (1911), acclaimed as a masterpiece of naturalistic fiction. His complex writing is passionate in its attention to the human dimension of abstract ideological clashes during turbulent historical transitions.

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TitleBefore the Dawn
Miscellany; 135
AuthorTōson Shimazaki
Translated byWilliam E. Naff
Edition2, illustrated
PublisherUniversity of Hawaii Press, 1987
Original fromthe University of Virginia
DigitizedOct 20, 2007
ISBN0824809149, 9780824809140
Length798 pages
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