Notes and Misconceptions
It is a loneliness novel, but also a novel about the transition from Meiji Japan into modernity.
The restraint is the force. The book does not need melodrama because the emotional debt is already heavy.
Best Path
Japanese modernism, guilt, friendship
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Short Classics That Have Teeth
Compact classics with more pressure than their length suggests.
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