{"product_id":"the-wild-goose-mori-ogai-9780939512713","title":"The Wild Goose: Volume 14","description":"Mori Ōgai (1862-1922), one of the giants of modern Japanese literature, wrote \u003ci\u003eThe Wild Goose\u003c\/i\u003e at the turn of the century. Set in the early 1880s, it was, for contemporary readers, a nostalgic return to a time when the nation was embarking on an era of dramatic change. Ōgai's narrator is a middle-aged man reminiscing about an unconsummated affair, dating to his student days, between his classmate and a young woman kept by a moneylender. At a time when writers tended to depict modern, alienated male intellectuals, the characters of \u003ci\u003eThe Wild Goose\u003c\/i\u003e are diverse, including not only students preparing for a privileged intellectual life and members of the plebeian classes who provide services to them, but also a pair of highly developed female characters. The author's sympathetic and penetrating portrayal of the dilemmas and frustrations faced by women in this early period of Japan's modernization makes the story of particular interest to readers today. Ōgai was not only a prolific and popular writer, but also a protean figure in early modern Japan: critic, translator, physician, military officer, and eventually Japan's Surgeon General. His rigorous and broad education included the Chinese classics as well as Dutch and German; he gained admittance to the Medical School of Tokyo Imperial University at the age of only fifteen. Once established as a military physician, he was sent to Germany for four years to study aspects of European medicine still unfamiliar to the Japanese. Upon his return, he produced his first works of fiction and translations of English and European literature. Ōgai's writing is extolled for its unparalleled style and psychological insight, nowhere better demonstrated than in \u003ci\u003eThe Wild Goose\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mori Ogai, Ogai Mori\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0939512718\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780939512713\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e U of M Center for Japanese Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.99h x 6.04w x 0.56d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/23\/1995 pg. 63","brand":"Mori Ogai","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44069415223551,"sku":"9780939512713","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_141a987d-4bb3-44ca-999b-227a4a9ae8c9.jpg?v=1685424585","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-wild-goose-mori-ogai-9780939512713","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}