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An Adopted Husband

by Futabatei Shimei
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781609622442
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
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  • Pages: 230
  • Original Price: USD 15.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 186 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Literary

This novel by Futabatei Shimei (1864-1909) falls squarely within the traditions of Naturalism in literature. Reminiscent of Theordore Dreiser's Sister Carrie or Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome, it presents characters in the grip of forces they cannot resist or control. Tetsuya is a Professor of Economics and Finance who has accepted an adoption-marriage to pay the costs of his education. Now he finds himself miserable with his neglectful wife Toki-ko, and attracted to her illegitimate half-sister Sayo-ko, who cannot help herself from returning his affections. Enmeshed by their emotions, hemmed in by convention, tormented by guilt and remorse, the lovers careen down a tears-laden course of deceit and dissolution. In Meiji Japan, the idealists must bend while the realists flourish and the costs to humanity are measured in suffering and despair. An Adopted Husband (Sono Omokage) appeared in 1906. This English translation was first published in 1919.

Shimei, Futabatei: - Futabatei Shimei (1864-1909) was born Hasegawa Tatsunosuke in Edo (Tokyo) and studied Russian language at the Tokyo Foreign Language School and in Russia. He published essays of literary criticism and translated the works of Ivan Turgenev and other Russian writers into Japanese. His first novel Ukigumo (The Drifting Cloud ) appeared in 1886. His second Sono Omokage (An Adopted Husband) was published in 1906, followed by Heibon (Mediocre) in 1907. The translators: Buhachiro Mitsui (1885-1967) later published books in Japanese and English on commercial correspondence. Gregg M. Sinclair (1890-1976) earned a master's degree from Columbia University in 1919. He later taught English in Japan, joined the English Department at the University of Hawaii in 1928, and served as its fourth President 1942-1956.

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