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The Twilight Years

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Author(s): Sawako Ariyoshi / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Japan; old age; care system; society; crisis of values;Japanese novel;

The novel deals with the problem of a crisis of values, caused by rapid changes in the social life of modern Japan, including the issue of a lack of an efficient system for the care of elderly people in the 1970s when the first symptoms of an aging society started to show. The author recounts the process of aging of middle-aged people caring for senile members of their families.

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Twinkle Twinkle

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Author(s): Kaori Ekuni / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: hugging water; Cezanne; Shoko; Mutsuhito; Kon; whisky; yuka; emotional instability

A contemporary novel of the Japanese author Kaori Ekuni in Polish translation by Amy Bajer, showing the struggle of a young, unconventional married couple for their place in society. The author portrays a case study of mariage blanc, euphemistically referred to as „hugging water” in Japanese culture. She draws attention to the limitations placed on one’s freedom of displaying attitudes that are opposed to the traditional model of the family in Japanese culture.

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The Life of an Amorous Woman

Żywot kobiety swawolnej

Author(s): Ihara Saikaku / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: seventeenth-century novel; Japanese literature; Japanese nun-courtesan; Kōshoku ichidai onna

Kōshoku ichidai ona is one of the best-known novels of the seventeenth-century Japanese writer Ihara Saikaku. It consists of six volumes, each containing six stories and illustrated by Yoshida Hanbeia. It shows the story of life and love of the titled, nameless character. It is a confession of a nun, born in an aristocratic family, raised at the court, educated in arts, who becomes a daimyō concubine. When sold, she finds herself in a brothel, where she pursues a courtesan career.

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Series:Powieść japońska

The Twilight Years

Lata mroku

Twinkle Twinkle

Błysk szczęścia

The Life of an Amorous Woman

Żywot kobiety swawolnej