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The Blue Cat: Definitive EditionAuthor: Hagiwara Sakutaro
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| Original Title | 定本青猫 |
|---|---|
| Author | 萩原 朔太郎 |
| Genre | Modern Short Fiction |
| Author Type | Male Author |
| Summary | A haunting collection of verse pulses with existential melancholy, weaving urban desolation and fragile beauty into a tapestry of profound sorrow. Born from a decade-long quest for artistic perfection, these poems emerge as fragmented visions—magic-lantern projections on tear-stained retinas, where nostalgia clings like condensation on rain-soaked glass. The author’s most intimate lamentations take shape as spectral cats, decaying cherry blossoms, and phantom cities, all suffused with Schopenhauerian ennui and a nihilistic ache that rejects solace. Ethereal woodblock illustrations mirror the verses’ dreamlike dissonance, capturing an era’s childlike wonder at modernity through frozen skies and timeless crowds. Here, sorrow is both decadent and toothless—a weightless shadow cast by a soul sprawled on a chaise longue, yearning for understanding in a world where joy dissolves like mist. Readers wander dim corridors of memory, where every whisper of flute music or flutter of wings becomes an elegy for unattainable grace. A symphony of despair and delicate imagery awaits those who dare to linger in its blue-tinged twilight. |
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