This book is the novella "Quilt" edited by Tianshan Hanabao.
The male protagonist Tokio is tired of living with his wife, and falls in love with the female disciple Yoshiko, and regards her as his real lover in his imagination. Yoshiko's fragrance, smile, and eyes filled Tokio's life, causing him to have sexual impulses again and again, but he was limited by tradition and had to suppress the love in his heart. When Yoshiko had a boyfriend of the same age, because he could not possess Yoshiko, he actually asked her father to pick her up in order to separate Yoshiko and her boyfriend. After Yoshiko left, Tokio covered Yoshiko with her quilt, sniffed the lingering fragrance on Yoshiko's quilt, and cried wantonly to vent...
Reader comments
I overheard the teacher mention this book in my literary history class and thought the plot was very attractive, so I read it. The plot is very simple. The love psychology and sexual desire of a middle-aged man Tokio are crazily suppressed by moral ethics, and he does all kinds of "normal" things against his own conscience. In the end, he can only vent his passion and depression by sniffing Yoshiko's bedding. It's scary to think about it, would a man really do this? However, Tokio was in the context of the transition between old and new ideas at the time, and he was an intellectual himself. He must have pursued new ideas and would have been dissatisfied with his old-fashioned wife. However, his various actions also revealed the dark side of human nature, which made me think more deeply about human nature.
The translator's language is very fresh, I like it very much! I have underlined a lot of beautiful sentences describing the scenery, which is also very helpful for writing.
This book truly shows the emotional entanglements and inner conflicts of middle-aged men. Tokio's boredom with life, his desire for a new love, and his final helplessness all make people sympathize with him. Although the storyline is simple, it is very deep and made me think about many issues about life and love. I think this is a book worth reading, it will give you a deeper understanding of human nature.
A representative work of private novels from the Taisho era in Japan, it describes the inner restlessness of a middle-aged man in the dull days after marriage, and the exciting fantasy experience of falling in love again. It can't help but lead people to think and reflect on human nature. When ethics, emotions, thoughts, and various entanglements have accumulated and evolved, where should we go?
I overheard the teacher mention this book in my literary history class and thought the plot was very attractive, so I read it. The plot is very simple. The love psychology and sexual desire of a middle-aged man Tokio are crazily suppressed by moral ethics, and he does all kinds of "normal" things against his own conscience. In the end, he can only vent his passion and depression by sniffing Yoshiko's bedding. It's scary to think about it, would a man really do this? However, Tokio was in the context of the transition between old and new ideas at the time, and he was an intellectual himself. He must have pursued new ideas and would have been dissatisfied with his old-fashioned wife. However, his various actions also revealed the dark side of human nature, which made me think more deeply about human nature. The translator's language is very fresh, I like it very much! I have underlined a lot of beautiful sentences describing the scenery, which is also very helpful for writing.
This book truly shows the emotional entanglements and inner conflicts of middle-aged men. Tokio's boredom with life, his desire for a new love, and his final helplessness all make people sympathize with him. Although the storyline is simple, it is very deep and made me think about many issues about life and love. I think this is a book worth reading, it will give you a deeper understanding of human nature.
A representative work of private novels from the Taisho era in Japan, it describes the inner restlessness of a middle-aged man in the dull days after marriage, and the exciting fantasy experience of falling in love again. It can't help but lead people to think and reflect on human nature. When ethics, emotions, thoughts, and various entanglements have accumulated and evolved, where should we go?