Chronicle of My Mother

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Chronicle of My Mother

work by Inoue

Also known as: “Waga haha no ki”

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Inoue Yasushi
Waga haha no ki (1975; Chronicle of My Mother), his moving and humorous account of his mother’s decline, exemplifies the characteristics of a Japanese poetic diary as well as the classical zuihitsu, a highly personal mode of recording experiences and observations. One of his late novels is Kōshi (1989; Confucius),…
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Waga haha no ki (1975; Chronicle of My Mother), his moving and humorous account of his mother’s decline, exemplifies the characteristics of a Japanese poetic diary as well as the classical zuihitsu, a highly personal mode of recording experiences and observations. One of his late novels is Kōshi (1989; Confucius),…
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