- Taschenbuch: 528 Seiten
- Verlag: Ecco; Auflage: Reprint (15. März 2011)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0061228494
- ISBN-13: 978-0061228490
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 22,6 x 15 x 3,6 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 563.849 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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“The performance of female characters by male Noh actors sparks a deeply researched, lovingly detailed, and obsessive discourse on the nature of feminine beauty....[A] fervently reflective, probing narrative...[that] rewards it on almost every page.” (Publishers Weekly )
“[A] provocative inquiry into beauty and desire... [Vollmann] is a passionate and penetrating observer ... a daring, brilliant, and idiosyncratic quest astonishing in its discernment, scope, and feeling.” (Booklist )
“[Vollmann’s] evocations of [Noh’s] death-haunted stories, its eerie masks, its male actors playing women...are so electric and strange, so enchanted, that they made me long for the very dramas that have often sent me toward the exit before the intermission.” (Pico Iyer, New York Times Book Review )
“Reward[s] the reader who stays with it for the long trip, the way a travel chronicle does.... Vollmann is not just a writer who admires. He is a writer who looks and touches.” (San Francisco Chronicle )
“[A] provocative inquiry into beauty and desire... [Vollmann] is a passionate and penetrating observer ... a daring, brilliant, and idiosyncratic quest astonishing in its discernment, scope, and feeling.” (Booklist )
“[Vollmann’s] evocations of [Noh’s] death-haunted stories, its eerie masks, its male actors playing women...are so electric and strange, so enchanted, that they made me long for the very dramas that have often sent me toward the exit before the intermission.” (Pico Iyer, New York Times Book Review )
“Reward[s] the reader who stays with it for the long trip, the way a travel chronicle does.... Vollmann is not just a writer who admires. He is a writer who looks and touches.” (San Francisco Chronicle )
Kurzbeschreibung
From the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central, a charming, evocative and piercing examination of an ancient Japanese tradition and the keys it holds to our modern understanding of beauty
What is a woman? To what extent is femininity a performance? Writing with the extra-ordinary awareness and endless curiosity that have defined his entire oeuvre, William T. Vollmann takes an in-depth look at the Japanese craft of Noh theater, using the medium as a prism to reveal the conception of beauty itself.
Sweeping readers from the dressing room of one of Japan's most famous Noh actors to a trans-vestite bar in the red-light district of Kabukicho, Kissing the Mask explores the enigma surrounding Noh theater and the traditions that have made it intrinsic to Japanese culture for centuries. Vollmann then widens his scope to encompass such modern artists of desire and loss as Mishima, Kawabata and Andrew Wyeth. From old Norse poetry to Greek cult statues, from elite geisha dancers to American makeup artists, from Serbia to India, Vollmann uncovers secrets of staged femininity and mysteries of perceived and expressed beauty, including specific makeup procedures furnished by an L.A. transgender bar girl, a Kabuki female impersonator, and the owner of a semi-clandestine studio for Tokyo cross-dressers.
Kissing the Mask is illustrated with many evocative sketches and photographs by the author.
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subtle
8. Januar 2012
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A great book, written with subtlety and wit. This is a writer to savor, given the humor and irony in so many of his sentences.
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Kindle edition lacks pictures
9. Oktober 2010
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Surplisingly, the pricey Kindle edition candidly declares at the beginning of the book that «the images were not available for the electronic edition»: twelve pages follow with the captions for the missing images.
I returned the book and I probably will purchase a printed copy. I find the experience maddening.
I returned the book and I probably will purchase a printed copy. I find the experience maddening.
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