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(★)(Translated by Leon Picon)(In ´The Counterfeiter´, a writer is commissioned to write the biography of a famous painter but becomes fascinated by a man who produced forgeries of the artist´s work. ´Obasute´ concerns a man´s obsession with a legend of old women being taken to a mountain and abandoned, and his interpretation of the actions of the members of his family in light of this legend. ´The Full Moon´ is a story of company politics, particularly the rise and fall of the firm´s president, told largely through incidents at annual company parties./ ◆Yasushi Inoue was born in 1907. He rose quickly to become one of Japan´s most important contemporary writers, winning almost every major Japanese literary prize. Inoue died in 1991./ ▼CONTENTS/ ●1.´The Counterfeiter´ ●2.´Obasute´ ●3.´The Full Moon´) |