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1 de ene. de 2010 · (Caution: some spoilers ahead) I thought the first 200 or so pages of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet were absolutely brilliant: Mitchell succeeded precisely by dismissing any suspicions or expectations that his story would be a reheated version of the novel that--for better or for worse--has become the archetype of historical fiction written about Japan by non-Japanese: Shogun.
Written by people who wish to remain anonymous. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet opens with an unpleasantly graphic scene of Orito, a Japanese midwife, delivering a stillborn baby from a person of power. Contrary to expectations, this child has no bearing on the rest of the plot; the scene occurs rather by way of an introduction to Orito's ...
David Mitchell — The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet<br>Genre: #contemporary_prose_mb <br><br>The year is 1799, the place Dejima, the "high-walled, fan-shaped artificial island" that is the Japanese Empire's single port and sole window to the world. It is also the farthest-flung outpost of the powerful Dutch East Indies Company. To this place of superstition and swamp fever, crocodiles and ...
On the Dutch side, Jacob must outfox a parcel of boozy, fiddling, whoring scoundrels with whose well-soused, shiver-me-timbers speech Mitchell has almost parodic fun. On the Nagasaki mainland, the ...
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is a stunning departure for this brilliant, restless, and wildly ambitious author, a giant leap forward by even his own high standards. A bold and epic novel of a rarely visited point in history, it is a work as exquisitely rendered as it is irresistibly readable. The year is 1799, the place Dejima in ...
Request PDF | Revisiting Dejima (Japan): From Recollections to Fiction in David Mitchell’s The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (2010) | In the Edo period, all the missionaries from the capital ...
29 de jun. de 2010 · The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is a stunning departure for this brilliant, restless, and wildly ambitious author, a giant leap forward by even his own high standards. A bold and epic novel of a rarely visited point in history, it is a work as exquisitely rendered as it is irresistibly readable. The year is 1799, the place Dejima in ...
