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EPISODE 43: Futabatei Shimei, "Ukigumo" ["Drifting Clouds"] (1889), Part Three
Description
Chapters 7-8: 0:00 —Sunday, November 2, 1884. 5:10 —Artificial & distorted forms. 7:25 —Japanese dressing. 11:50 —Scraping & bowing & spewing. 15:18 —Only one idol. 17:39 —Baffled Bunzō 24:04 —“He’s terribly bold.” 27:51 —Interlude.
Chapters 9-12: 28:32 — Bunzō’s worst fears. 32:07 —Free indirect discourse. 40:14 — Bunzō meets Yamaguchi. 42:28 —Bozo Bunzō. 47:12 —An abyss of pain. 51:19 —Interlude.
Chapters 13-19: 52:10 —What’s wrong with Bunzō? 1:00:15 —Borderline Bunzō. 1:02:30 —Bunzō & Futabatei. 1:04:01 —Russian literature & politics. 1:06:35 —Oblomov & Underground Man. 1:08:36 —Neurosis & psychosis. 1:10:11 —Not a nice girl. 1:11:31 —A new perspective. 1:18:38 —Bunzō observes. 1:23:37 —The ending. 1:32:07 —The end. 1:33:38 —Closing.
Text: Futabatei Shimei. Ukigumo. Translated by Marleigh Grayer Ryan. Japan’s First Modern Novel, “Ukigumo” of Futabatei Shimei. 1965. Center for Japanese Studies, Univ. of Michigan, 1990.
Interlude: Yūgure,” performed by Ensemble Hijiri-Kaï , Urban Music of the Edo Period , 2005, Ocora Records, Paris, Internet Archive.
Illustration: Society of Friends of the Cernuschi Museum, Paris.
Contact: jimjneilson@gmail.com
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