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(*)(trans. by Sanford Goldstein & Kazuji Ninomiya ()(Este libro es version renovada delLNI-0333L.)(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 Lnew womanL. In the middle of all this turbulence was a woman barely out of high school, Noe Ito. ItoLs 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 LSeitoL, one of the most revolutionary publications of the day. Was Ito a selfless Lnew womanLor 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 WomenLs 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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