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The result is a novel with the broad social canvas (and love of coincidence) of Charles Dickens and Jane Austen's intense attention to the nuances of erotic maneuvering. Readers experience the entire life of a geisha, from her origins as an orphaned fishing-village girl in 1929 to her triumphant auction of her mizuage (virginity) for a record price as a teenager to her reminiscent old age as the distinguished mistress of the powerful patron of her dreams. We discover that a geisha is more analogous to a Western "trophy wife" than to a prostitute--and, as in Austen, flat-out prostitution and early death is a woman's alternative to the repressive, arcane system of courtship. In simple, elegant prose, Golden puts us right in the tearoom with the geisha; we are there as she gracefully fights for her life in a social situation where careers are made or destroyed by a witticism, a too-revealing (or not revealing enough) glimpse of flesh under the kimono, or a vicious rumour spread by a rival "as cruel as a spider."
Golden's web is finely woven, but his book has a serious flaw: the geisha's true romance rings hollow--the love of her life is a symbol, not a character. Her villainous geisha nemesis is sharply drawn, but she would be more so if we got a deeper peek into the cause of her motiveless malignity--the plight all geisha share. Still, Golden has won the triple crown of fiction: he has created a plausible female protagonist in a vivid, now-vanished world and he gloriously captures Japanese culture by expressing his thoughts in authentic Eastern metaphors. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Taschenbuch .
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From start to finish, the listener is absorbed in the elegant spirit of Davis's performance, eager to hear the next chapter of Sayuri's transformation into one of the most famous geishas of the century. How unfortunate, then, to learn that book readers not only get the basic story, but a fascinating look at the intricate rules and rituals of geisha culture. Here, for example, is one of the many revelations omitted from the cassette: "Japanese men, as a rule, feel about a woman's neck and throat the same way that men in the West might feel about a woman's legs .... In fact, a geisha leaves a tiny margin of skin bare all around the hairline, causing her makeup to look even more artificial .... When a man sits beside her, he becomes that much more aware of the bare skin beneath."
We're also denied several subplots--the aborted friendship between Sayuri and a geisha named Pumpkin, for example, or much of the story involving the man Sayuri is secretly in love with. But what remains is as precious as a traditional Japanese kimono--at once artistic, suggestive and moving. --Ann Senechal -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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I also recommend " The Quest " by Giorgio Kostantinos
Chiyo wird mit neun Jahren aufgrund der schweren Krankheit ihrer Mutter und der Mittellosigkeit ihres Vaters nach Kyoto gebracht, um dort zu lernen, eine Geisha zu sein, wie eine zu denken und in der harten Konkurrenz unter Geishas zu bestehen. Viel mehr wohl, zu überleben. In Gion (dem Geisha-Distrikt von Kyoto) setzt sie sich gegen weitaus erfahrenere Geishas durch, um eine der populärsten Gesellschafterinnen Japans zu werden.
Arthur Golden mag sich nicht zu 100% an das Original Mineko Iwasaki gehalten haben, trotzdem fasziniert die Geschichte der kleinen Chiyo-san von Anfang an. Lebhafter kann man diese fremde Kultur den westlichen Lesern wohl kaum nahe bringen.
Ein geniales Buch, gefühlvoll und schlüssig geschrieben. Lässt keine Wünsche offen.
Carefully recherched, the story is brought to the reader in a wonderfully poetic and warm story. Lesen Sie weiter...
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