Title : By the Lake - Yasushi Inoue - book

Summary :

Written between 1937 and 1953, these unpublished texts, which have sometimes been developed into novels, never cease to surprise with their sustained beauty, their mystery, their melancholy and, always, their acute vision of a world of deceptive serenity. Whether in Au bord du lac (whose narrator, a bitter old man, refuses to acknowledge that his selfish intransigence has doomed him to solitude and his family to unhappiness), or in Les plumiers blancs (twenty years after a memorable escape, a painter finds the daughter of his first great love: could she also be his?) or even in Le cahier du moine Tchoken (in the evening of his life, an old academic undertakes to write the story of the existence of a monk whose scandalous conduct fascinated him in his youth) we find this dreamy nostalgia, this need to imagine what could have been and was not, treated in a dazzling and often disturbing manner by the great Japanese master of the short story.

• EAN : 9782234054721
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