The Wild Geese

Author(s): Ogai Mori

Classics

Otama is forced by poverty to become a moneylender's mistress. She is surrounded by her weak-willed father, her virile and calculating lover (and his suspicious wife), and the handsome student who is the object of her desire. Like those around her, and like the wild geese of the title, Otama yearns for the freedom of flight.


Product Information

Ogai Mori (1862-1922) stands in the foremost rank of modern Japanese novelists. His professional success as an army surgeon was outstripped by his even more brilliant ascent in the literary world of the Meiji and Taisho eras. His work is characterized by a strong humanistic element, a romantic quality effectively tempered by realism, and a lucid style that often rises to lyric intensity as in the closing passages of The Wild Geese. Written in 1913, The Wild Geese enjoyed such success in Japan that it was made into a film, shown abroad as The Mistress.

General Fields

  • : 9784805308844
  • : Tuttle Publishing
  • : Tuttle Publishing
  • : 0.159
  • : May 2010
  • : 203mm X 133mm X 13mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Ogai Mori
  • : Paperback
  • : 2nd Revised edition
  • : English
  • : 895.6342
  • : 160