Rivalry: A Geisha's Tale

Nagai Kafu; Translated by Stephen Snyder

October, 2007
Cloth, 184 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14118-5
$24.95 / £16.95

Introduction

1: Intermission

2: A Real Gem

3: Dayflowers

4: Welcoming Fires

5: A Dream in the Daylight

6: The Actor’s Seal

7: Afterglow

8: Crimes in Bed

9: The Autumn Review

10: Box Seat

11: The Kikuobana

12: Rain on an Autumn Night

13: The Road Home

14: Asakusa

15: At the Gishun

16: Opening Day (I)

17: Opening Day (II)

18: Yesterday and Today

19: Yasuna

20: The Morning Bath

21: Turmoil

22: One Thing or Another

Related Subjects

• Asian Literature
• Fiction

Series

• Japanese Studies Series

About the Author

Nagai Kafu (1879-1959) was a Japanese novelist whose translated works include Autumn Wind and Other Stories, American Stories, and During the Rains and Flowers in the Shades: Two Novellas. Stephen Snyder teaches Japanese language and literature at Middlebury College. He is the author of Fictions of Desire: Narrative Form in the Novels of Nagai Kafu and coeditor of Oe and Beyond: Studies in Contemporary Japanese Literature. He has translated works by Oe Kenzaburo, Murakami Ryu, Yu Miri, and Kirino Natsuo. His translation of Yoko Ogawa's "Pregnancy Diary" appeared in The New Yorker in December 2005.

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