Table of contents : Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Illness as Empowerment 2. Modernism and Its Endings 3. Things of Beauty 4. The Subject of Change Translations Lemon Mire On the Road The Past After the Snow Landscapes of the Heart The Ascension of K, or K’s Drowning Winter Days Under the Cherry Trees Instrumental Illusions The Story of the Bamboo Pipe Blue Sky Winter Flies Certain Feelings on a Cliff Top Caresses Scroll of Darkness Mating The Carefree Patient Publication History Works Cited Index About the Author