The Wind is Rising·naoko
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"The Wind Rises" is Tatsuo Hori's masterpiece. The novel was published four times in different publications such as "Reform", "Literary Spring and Autumn", "New Women's Garden", and "New Wave" from December 1936 to April 1938, and was finally compiled into a chapter. The work describes the male protagonist accompanying his fiancée Setsuko to recuperate in the mountains. The two seek happiness in life together despite illness but have to face death. It depicts their yearning for happiness, helplessness towards reality, self-reflection and loyalty to love. The novel's writing style is delicate, and the emotions can be seen on the back of the paper, giving the whole work an unforgettable and tragic atmosphere. The work uses a large number of psychological descriptions to directly touch the inner world of people in love, reflecting the author's obvious psychological tendency, especially the appearance of Rilke's "Requiem" in the last part, which finds the spiritual home for the hero and makes the whole story conclude in philosophical reflection. It integrated the quiet lyrical style that began to form in the literature of the Heian Dynasty into its own creation. What he wrote was a "unique love life". This kind of love happiness was cultivated in the lonely life in the mountain sanatorium. It was not a happy happiness, but a "sad happiness", a "life happiness with more or less the breath of death". The novella "Naoko" reflects the hesitation and pursuit of an ordinary woman on the road of life through the description of the complex and subtle psychological activities of the protagonist Naoko surrounding her husband Keisuke Kurokawa and her childhood friend Akira Tsuzuki while she was recuperating in a sanatorium.
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