Word: fosco
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Meeting with Japan (Viking Press; 1960), by Fosco Maraini, invaluable not for statistics but for its intuitive thrusts by a highly intelligent Italian who has both deeply enjoyed and bitterly suffered (including wartime imprisonment) during ten years in Japan. Author Maraini is rare in that he can see the beauty of the land without blinking at its ugliness...
MEETING WITH JAPAN (467 pp.)-Fosco Maraini-Viking...
...Buddhism to transistorized radios, by a top U.S. scholar, Donald Keene, associate professor of Japanese at Columbia. Author Keene's book has the edge in the number and beauty of its photographs. But Meeting with Japan is steeped in deeper experience. From 1938 to 1943, Italian-born Anthropologist Fosco Maraini studied and taught in Japan. Two of his three daughters were born in Japan, and when Italy surrendered in World War II, he and his family, interned, nearly starved to death in a prison camp near Nagoya. Meeting is the elaborate, graceful story of Maraini's 1955 return...
| 1 |