" The curvature of her back is a comely unspeakable. Has all the beauty that can contain a curved line "
"Nothing is more useful to ' human being's perception of their own stupidity. In front of a fool who knows it, all those who have a high opinion of himself should apologize and bow their heads in shame. Even if the fool in question is pleased to despise and laugh at himself "
Some books one buys them after they are searched for. Others choose them because they know the author. Others however do not know why. Others They are being given away, not having to choose another clue if not the title.
Of all the ones I tried, chosen or in which I have ventured, I rarely found one who could surprise me like that. It seems written now. O maybe tomorrow. But more than one hundred years.
remember that only one other book has managed to give me the same awe: ' The Late Mattia Pascal '. It will be a chance that Pirandello published his masterpiece, just a year ago (and several thousand kilometers to the west) by Natsume Soseki .
Initially, I thought that my impression was simply due to the modern translation of an ancient Japanese. But it is not. The beautiful yellow and gray cat may well rival Mattia Pascal / Adriano Meis to wit, style and philosophy of life. On the other hand, at the beginning of the twentieth century, even two countries as far away as Italy and Japan had a little something in common, at least in cultural terms. In Italy, the change was traveling on the wave of enthusiasm for the avant-garde and the beginning of the last century of the millennium (curiously in the absence of works that predict the end of the world. What god would be so impolite as to end the world for a century after the end of the millennium?). In Japan, however, burn up the generational shift among those born Edo era (the one in which to govern the country were the warriors, the Shogun, or if you prefer, the Samurai), and who was born in the Meiji era, from name of the emperor who returned to the throne after the removal of the Tokugawa Shogun. Transition not only age, or political but also cultural, since the first ruled Japan as a closed country and the banner of conservatism more fierce, while the Emperor Meiji and opened the West began the process of contamination that led to Japan today. And who knows, this has been 'shared ferment' to give birth to two books that I seem so similar in the two countries that have similar (in appearance at least) practically zero.
the book's title is " I am a Cat", and I gave it Helen, that God will bless the hand that used to choose it, and already there, all the rest.
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