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| Original Title | 古都 |
|---|---|
| Author | 坂口 安吾 |
| Genre | Historical Fiction |
| Author Type | Male Author |
| Summary | Disgusted by Tokyo's unbearable pull, a novelist impulsively flees to Kyoto, hoping to find a new purpose. But his desperate search for solace leads him not to inspiration, but to a forgotten, dead-end alley and a dilapidated Go club teeming with society's most peculiar and defeated souls. From a sharp-tongued proprietress and her henpecked, former noble husband, to a hapless caretaker and a perpetually bewildered tailor, these characters draw him into their grotesque world. As the shadows of war deepen and his own sense of self unravels amidst their nightly "Parade of One Hundred Demons," he finds himself drinking to forget, commanding the very chaos he sought to escape. This squalid existence may well be his final destination. |
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