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(*)(trans. by Sanford Goldstein & Kazuji Ninomiya (★)(Este libro es version renovada del´NI-0333´.)(1.The Taisho era [1912-26] in Japan was a period of widespread unrest and radical change. Socialists were demanding the end of the class system ; anarchists were calling for the overthrow of the government ; a feminist movement had announced the birth of the ´new woman´. In the middle of all this turbulence was a woman barely out of high school, Noe Ito. Ito´s life was the stuff of legend -alienation, rebellion, passion, and persecution- all in twenty-eight short years. She was married three times and gave birth to seven children ; she was at the center of a scandal when another woman stabbed her lover because he had started living with Ito. Despite the turmoil of her private life, Ito spent a year as editor of the magazine ´Seito´, one of the most revolutionary publications of the day. Was Ito a selfless ´new woman´or a selfish hedonist, a rare woman ahead of her time or a mere victim of her times? Noe Ito is a complex character whom no two readers will view the same way. But all will agree that author Harumi Setouchi has created a remarkable portrait of an exceptional and unusual woman. 2.Harumi Setouchi was born in Tokushima prefecture in 1922. She graduated from the Women´s Christian College, and began writing in 1952. In 1973, she became a Buddhist nun, taking the name of Jakucho, but she has continued with her writing career. She has received numerous awards for her books and has been declared a Person of Cultural Merit in Kyoto.) |
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