Lieutenant Lookeast and Other Stories by Masuji Ibuse; Translator-J. Bester - 1971-09-13

London. 1971. Secker & Warburg. 1st British Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0436217767. Translated from the Japanese by John Bester. 247 pages. hardcover. . keywords: Literature Translated Japan Asia . FROM THE PUBLISHER - The ten stories in this volume cover a wide range of moods and subjects, from cattle breeding to tomb robbery, from satire to fable. The title story tells of a local eccentric, a demented martinet who returns from the war with symptoms of brain damage. Is it shell shock, the villagers wonder, or - a more exciting possibility - congenital syphilis? The truth which emerges is more squalid, yet curiously moving. This bathetic figure, a scruffy clown, becomes a symbol for the higher lunacy of war. ‘Pilgrim's Inn' is a sharply etched vignette of society's callousness towards the individual, while ‘Old Ushitora', a story about the delicate sensibility of the son of a stud-farmer, is bucolic comedy with a cutting edge. Through concentration on the patterns… Read More

London: Secker and Warburg, 1971. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket that is a bit sunned on the spine.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1971. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. Very good/very good. black cloth gray lettering dust jacket unclipped, 247 pp first UK edition.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.