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Ōgai Mori

Born

in Tsuwano, Japan

February 17, 1862

Died

July 09, 1922

Genre

Poetry, Biography, Fiction

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Mori Ōgai, pseudonym of Mori Rintarō (born February 17, 1862, Tsuwano, Japan—died July 9, 1922, Tokyo), one of the creators of modern Japanese literature.

The son of a physician of the aristocratic warrior (samurai) class, Mori Ōgai studied medicine, at first in Tokyo and from 1884 to 1888 in Germany. In 1890 he published the story “Maihime” (“The Dancing Girl”), an account closely based on his own experience of an unhappy attachment between a German girl and a Japanese student in Berlin. It represented a marked departure from the impersonal fiction of preceding generations and initiated a vogue for autobiographical revelations among Japanese writers. Ōgai’s most popular novel, Gan (1911–13; part translation: The Wild Goose), is the story of ...more

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	The Wild Geese by Ōgai Mori, Sanford Goldstein (Translator), Kingo Ochiai (Translator) 3.57 avg rating — 3,319 ratings — published 1911 — 58 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La bailarina by Ōgai Mori, Yoko Ogihara (Translator), Fernando Cordobés (Translation) 3.32 avg rating — 1,153 ratings — published 1890 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vita Sexualis by Ōgai Mori, Sanford Goldstein (Translator), Kazuji Ninomiya (Translator) 3.39 avg rating — 927 ratings — published 1909 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zarządca Sanshō by Ōgai Mori, Katarzyna Sonnenberg-Musiał (Translator) 3.39 avg rating — 585 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El intendente Sansho by Ōgai Mori, 森鴎外, Elena Gallego (Translator) 3.59 avg rating — 118 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Takasebune 3.99 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 1916 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	L'intendente Sansho 3.41 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 1915 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La familia Abe by Ōgai Mori, Jesús Carlos Álvarez Crespo (Translator), Carlos Rubio (Introduction) 3.29 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1913 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Come Se by Ōgai Mori, Paola Cavaliere (Translator), Atsuko Azuma (Translator) 3.27 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 1912	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Juventud by Ōgai Mori, Akira Sugiyama (Traductor), Sally Battan (Traductora) 3.48 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 1910 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I don't remember who spoke first, but I do recall the first words between us: "How often we meet among old books!"
This was the start of our friendship.”
― Ōgai Mori, The Wild Geese

tags: friendship, japan, japanese, japanese-literature

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“An obstacle which would frighten discreet men is nothing to determined women. They dare what men avoid, and sometimes they achieve an unusual success.”
― Ōgai Mori, The Wild Geese

tags: japan, japanese, japanese-literature, women

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“In old Chinese novels, especially in the Kimpeibai, usually after every ten or twenty pages of innocent description, the author invariably throws in an indecent scene as if he were quite punctually fulfilling a promise.”
― Ōgai Mori, The Wild Geese

tags: chinese, japanese

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