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II.
Ukigumo
Cea mai cunoscut oper a sa: romanul Ukigumo Norul plutitor (eng. The Drifting
Cloud); alctuit din 19 capitole structurate n 3 pri;
Prima traducere n ntregime a romanului Ukigumo - n englez de ctre Marleigh Grayer
Ryan cu tilul Japan first Modern Novel: Ukigumo of Futabatei Shimei (1965), iar apoi
n chinez (1985) ntr-o antologie a operelor autorului.
nainte de aceasta, o parte din Ukigumo a aprut n volumul lui Georges Bonneau - i i
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-1938) (1940) i o alta n volumul
cercettorului american Donald Keene - Modern Japanese Literature (1956).
Alte opere: tratatul de critic Sh
S (Observations on the Novel) 1886, romanul Sono Omokage (An Adopted Husband) 1906, romanul
Heibon - 1907
Particularitile limbii japoneze: particulele de emfaz, registrul limbajului onorific, aluzia,
propoziiile vagi, dialogul evaziv, etc.
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-cheeked girl came clattering upstairs. She was plump, stocky and sturdy a true buxom
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o Fraze lungi i complexe
Look carefully and you will see what an enormous variety of individual types are represented in
the huge crowd 1. Start by examining the hair bristling on their faces 2: mustaches, side whiskers,
Vandykes, and even extravagant imperial beards, Bismark beards eminiscent of a Pekinese, bantam
beards, badgers beards, meager beards that are barely visible.3 Thick and thin they sprout in every
conceivable way.4
o Lipsa copulelor de arimasu sau de aru
Bibliografie:
1. Miyoshi, Masao - Accomplices of Silence: The Modern Japanese Novel, University of
California Press, 1974;
2. Ratcliff, Christian, The Difference between Modern Literature and Literature of Modernity
in the Early Meiji Period, University of Kanagawa, 2009;
3. Ryan, Marleigh Grayer - Japan's first modern novel: Ukigumo of Futabatei Shimei, New
York, Columbia University Press, 1967;
4. Wollaeger, Mark & Eatough, Matt - The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms, Oxford
University Press, 2012;
5. Textul n original origial: http://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000006/files/1869_33656.html
(accesat la 29.04.2014).