Rivalry: A Geisha's Tale

Nagai Kafu; Translated by Stephen Snyder

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Paper, 184 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14119-2
$20.00 / £14.00

September, 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.

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