グレン・グールド 草枕

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 [Music] the three cornered world was written in 1906 but its action if one can use that term with regard to so static a work is set 2 years earlier at the time of the russo-japanese war.

the war plays no direct part in the novel at least not until the last few pages but at that point it's rather jaring denan has an uncanny similarity to the World War I Motif which brings to a close another great Alpine novel The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann.

the three cored world is among other things about meditation versus action Detachment versus Duty about Western versus Eastern value systems about the perceived Perils of modernism.

in my opinion it's one of the greatest novels of the 20th centur and I'm going to read just a few excerpts from its first chapter.

 going up a mountain track I felt a thinking approach everything rationally and you become harsh pull along in the Stream of emotions and you will be swept away by the current give free reign to your desires and you become uncomfortably confined it is not a very agreeable place to live this world of ours