The Youth of Things: Life and Death in the Age of Kajii Motojiro 9780824838416

When he died from tuberculosis at the age of thirty-one, Kajii Motojirō had written only twenty short stories. Yet his l

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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

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