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(*)(trans. by Sanford Goldstein & Kazuji Ninomiya) (★)(Titulo original : Bi wa ranchoo ni ari [美は乱調にあり] Japan´s Taisho era [1912-26] 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 is 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 woman. ◆Born in 1922 in Tokushima prefecture, HARUMI SETOUCHI graduated from Tokyo Women´s Christian College. In 1973 she became a Buddhist nun, taking the name of Jakucho, but has continued her writing career.) |
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