Oliver StatlerRecensioni
Autore di Japanese Inn
Recensioni
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I'm soon to go on a Japanese Pilgrimage, so this book looked interesting. Indeed, I found it fascinating, although rather more about the way stories accrete over time and less about an actual pilgrimage. Here, there are layers of cautionary tales as a cast of characters plod over mountains and through valleys in a large circle, where it is hard to distinguish who is from deep history and who is more recent. The book was published in 1984 and it will be interesting to see how dated it is. . For a Picador, I was surprised to encounter so many typos In 1918, Takamure Itsue set out on pilgrimage at 24, looking for a way to live. She made the following resolutions (p.273-74):
All seem like worthwhile resolutions to me.