Yes really. Japanese lit has it's own special kind of Melancoly. They`ve taken the Epic Tragity to a whole new art. Most of the books we read ended tragicaly or bitter sweet... Tale of Genji, Tale of Hekie, Some Perfer Nettles, The Waiting Years, Snow Country, Kokoro, The Golden Pavilon, The Bunraku Play `Love Suicide`...I mean with a title like Love Suicide, Romeo and Juliet's got nothin on this one. Now that I think of it, many Classic Beloved Bunraku Plays are Love Suicide stories.... wait...I'm tring to think of one we read that didn't have a sad ending...Hmmm...Maybe The Sound of Waves by Akira Mishima...but ya.
If you like Bitter Sweet I'd recomend Norigean Wood by Haruki Murakami and Kokoro by Natsumi Soseki is rather powerful and heart wrenching.
well if not a statue for Lulu an epic play for sure XD It'd be intresting to see the casting auditions for Lulu's part XD
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Tale of Genji, Tale of Hekie, Some Perfer Nettles, The Waiting Years, Snow Country, Kokoro, The Golden Pavilon, The Bunraku Play `Love Suicide`...I mean with a title like Love Suicide, Romeo and Juliet's got nothin on this one. Now that I think of it, many Classic Beloved Bunraku Plays are Love Suicide stories.... wait...I'm tring to think of one we read that didn't have a sad ending...Hmmm...Maybe The Sound of Waves by Akira Mishima...but ya.
If you like Bitter Sweet I'd recomend Norigean Wood by Haruki Murakami and Kokoro by Natsumi Soseki is rather powerful and heart wrenching.
well if not a statue for Lulu an epic play for sure XD It'd be intresting to see the casting auditions for Lulu's part XD