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
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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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