検索キーワード： アジア

New Delhi, 3 heures du matin. Une Mercedes roulant à vive allure manque un virage et, en un instant, cinq personnes sont tuées. C'est la voiture d'un homme riche. Mais lorsque la poussière retombe, le chauffeur s'avère n'être qu'un domestique en état de choc qui ne peut expliquer l'étrange série d'événements qui a mené à ce crime. Tout comme il ne peut prévoir le drame qui est sur le point de se dérouler.

Middle class, middle aged, multicultural mother of millennial sons, Sudha lives a ‘squeezed middle’ life in Wimbledon. As she navigates her career, family and returning to India as a NRI (Non-Resident Indian), she is prompted to investigate her own sense of home and place in the world. Evening Conversations is a warm-hearted monologue inspired by Sudha’s banter with her dual-heritage (Pakistani/East African Indian) millennial sons who have grown up in leafy Wimbledon while her life has spanned three continents. She invites her boys to ‘crack open a cold one’ and share their views on life.

This collection of Japanese poetry was compiled and translated into English from an anthology known as The Collection of Myriad Leaves, and from a number of other anthologies made by imperial decree between the tenth and fifteenth centuries. This period has come to be considered the golden age of Japanese literature. These examples of Japanese poetry exhibit the most exquisite polish, allied with an avoidance of every shocking or perturbing theme; they combine the enduring luster of a precious metal with the tenuity of gold-leaf.

売れないフォークシンガー牧則和（まきのりかず） 彼は高円寺にある四畳半一間のアパートで、夢と希望だけを頼りに彼女と暮らしている。一歳年上の彼女 牧野千歳（まきのちとせ）は、彼のことをいつも「ボクちゃん」と呼び、惜しみない愛を捧げる姉さん女房だ。 二人の穏やかでささやかな暮らしとは対象的に、なかなか貧乏生活から抜け出せない暮らしが続く。 そんなある日、一匹の亀との出会いをきっかけに、彼の人生が大きく動くはじめる。だが、やがて二人には大きな試練が待っていた。 貧乏と愛をテーマに、一匹の亀との長きに渡る愛の物語がはじまる。

Rise of the Water Margin immerses the listener in a near-future world grounded in American and Chinese cultural and political landscapes bickering over climate responsibility, wherein technology challenges humanity to redefine its relationship with the Earth. Superpowers seek to leverage and subvert technology to further political ambitions while losing sight of human elements beyond their control.

Ajay is fighting demons in his mind after losing his wife, Bhavna. Ten years of togetherness and a harsh twist of fate have thrown him into the pit of depression. With medication and therapy helping him fight his immense grief, there is only one ray of hope for him–he wants to immortalize his wife. Anisha lives life queen size. Making the most of each moment, she loves everything that she is blessed with. She is shocked when she meets Ajay. How can someone hate God so much? More than anything, what will that hatred do to him?

Unsung, Arunoday Singh’s first volume of poetry, presents a collection of his most popular work alongside new material, where he delves inwards and probes questions of love, loss, longing—everything that ails the human heart. He has amassed a large, involved following on Instagram, where he shares his poetry in handwritten calligraphy under the handle @sufisoul. The poems are deceptively simple and intensely piercing. They are divided into four sections that explore the themes of the self, the elements, breaking and healing, the search for divinity, and the light and darkness of the spirit.

Questo audiolibro è nato per goliardia e per far felici gli amici e le persone più care. L'autore-curatore-lettore mette a testo una serie di strampalati ma divertenti componimenti poetici, ora in forma di haiku incerti e zoppicanti, ora in quella di sonetti petrarchisti tradizionalmente intesi, attribuendone la paternità al fantomatico Makaga-to Ukatzu, con tanto di studio critico introduttivo.

Mitch Horowitz provides a deep dive into the classic, The Art of War, in this fascinating discussion on its meaning and relevance to today's world and seeker. As he shows, The Art of War teaches us how to navigate a world in which friction is an inevitability in which we are all, at varying times going to find ourselves called upon to prevail. It is a guide to victory, but it is also a book both on an epic and intimate scale that is about victory with honor.

菊池寛初期の短編小説。京都大学時代の経験も交えて書かれた面白い小説です。エゴイズムに対する辛辣な皮肉も込められた作品でもあります。 京都の疎水の描写も興味深い作品です。

山本周五郎の短編の魅力はストーリー転換の妙にあります。読者や聴き手に結末を想像させておいて見事にひっくり返す。それで終わりと思いきや、もう一度転換する。その手法がたっぷり味わえる作品。

河に浮かぶ死体を嘲笑して見物する群衆を描いた小品。死者への冒涜を怒りながら、衆愚と無縁でない己の内面を冷静にとらえている。いわゆる「啓吉もの」のひとつ。啓吉は菊池寛の分身だ。

芥川の作品には珍しく、自身の体験をそのまま物語にした中期の作品です。短い物語の中に数多く出てくる「象徴」と「色彩」が見事に描かれています。耳で聴くと、「この作品は五感で味わう作品」

主人公である良秀の「芸術の完成のためにはいかなる犠牲も厭わない」姿勢が、芥川自身の芸術至上主義と絡めて論じられますが、そんな難しい事は考えず、純粋に楽しんで欲しい作品。

Le poesie di questa raccolta autobiografica d`esordio, vincitrice di numerosi premi e bestseller, sono tratte dai diari che il poeta ha scritto nell`arco di vent`anni, fin da quando era giovane.

A Jinbōchō, Tōkyō, il quartiere delle librerie, si trova anche la libreria Morisaki, che appartiene alla famiglia da tre generazioni. Satorue che la gestisce, è l'opposto di sua nipote Takako, che non esce di casa da quando l'uomo di cui era innamorata le ha annunciato che sposerà un'altra. Ed è proprio lui, l'eccentrico zio, a lanciarle un'imprevista ancora di salvezza proponendole di trasferirsi al piano di sopra della libreria in cambio di qualche ora di lavoro.

今から100年以上前に書かれた作品とは思えないほど、現在の、特に日本の社会状況を見事に描き出している作品です。巨大な毒虫に「変身」したグレゴリー・ザムザは、なぜ「変身」したのか。

明智小五郎シリーズ、前期五作目の四番目にあたります。この作品では明智小五郎は派手な作品で派手な活躍をするわけではありませんが、明智の趣味嗜好が明確になった作品でもあります。

「Ｄ坂の殺人事件」「心理試験」に続く、明智小五郎シリーズの三作目。暗号を解読して事件を解決していく、という手法を採用したが、乱歩にとってはまだまだ不満の残る作品だったらしい。

いろいろな意味で、ちょっと切ない作品かと思います。時代は昭和。戦後の生き方を誰もが見いだせない中を健気に、しかし強く生きていく「妻」。