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S'està carregant… The Japan Journals: 1947-2004 (2004 original; edició 2005)de Donald Richie, Leza Lowitz (Editor)
Informació de l'obraThe Japan Journals: 1947-2004 de Donald Richie (2004)
   Cap No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra.  kougogo | Jun 3, 2010 |  A classy wrap-up of an astonishing career in Japan., January 30, 2005 (revised from my review on Amazon) Donald Richie's JAPAN JOURNALS give us an insightful, refreshing collection of anecdotes from long roster of "who's who" of post WWII Japan. Coming to Japan to take a journalist job for the US Army's 'Stars and Stripes', the author found his niche as an observer of the Japanese. He was the first foreign writer to bring the art of Japanese Cinema to the attention of the west. In the intervening 50+ years of living in and writing about Japan, he was able to get to know many of Japan's most creative individuals, but he has waited until now to share his personal stories. Keeping several types of journals over the past 50 years, Donald Richie melded his observations into many published works: collections of biographical sketches, descriptions of the country and society, sophisticated critiques of Japanese film and even some entertaining novels. With THE JAPAN JOURNALS 1947-2004, he dishes a little more of the inside stories and gets more personal. Ms. Lowitz's intelligent editing prevents overlapping previously published works, and her own comments are well-wrought. (  )2  nobooksnolife | Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
"Richie should be designated a living national treasure."--Library Journal "Wonderfully evocative and full of humor... honest, introspective, and often poignant."--New York Times "No one has written with more concentration about the peculiar quality of exile enjoyed by the gaijin, the foreigner in Japan."--London Review of Books "To read [The Donald Richie Reader and The Japan Journals] is like diving for pearls. Dip into any part of them and you will surely find treasures about the cinema, literature, traveling, writing. The passages are evocative, erotic, playful, and often profound."--Japanese Language and Literature Donald Richie has been observing and writing about Japan from the moment he arrived on New Year's Eve, 1946. Detailing his life, his lovers, and his ideas on matters high and low, The Japan Journals is a record of both a nation and an evolving expatriate sensibility. As Japan modernizes and as the author ages, the tone grows elegiac, and The Japan Journals--now in paperback after the critically acclaimed hardcover edition--becomes a bittersweet chronicle of a complicated life well lived and captivatingly told. Donald Richie, the eminent film historian, novelist, and essayist, still lives in Tokyo. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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 Google Books — S'està carregant…GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)952.04092 — History and Geography Asia Japan 1945-LCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana: (4.19)
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Basically, though, I'm totally jealous of him - hanging out with Mishima at dive bars! no fair! (