floating clouds
floating clouds
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Fumiko Hayashi's final masterpiece of her wandering life
More than 70 years since its publication‧A new Chinese translation
Our love is like a floating cloud, drifting until there is nowhere left to go.
She shocked the literary world with "Journal of a Vagabond," which sold 600,000 copies upon its first publication.
20 years later, she concluded her brilliant literary career with "Floating Clouds."
Mikio Naruse adapted her works six times; the film adaptation of the same name left Yasujiro Ozu in awe.
Pioneer of travel literature ╳ Representative of proletarian literature ╳ A genius female writer who combines sentimentality and worldliness
Her writing simultaneously reveals both a yearning for and weariness of life.
★ A legendary novelist praised by masters such as Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima, and Seiko Tanabe.
★ Natsuo Kirino, who loved reading Fumiko Hayashi throughout her life, wrote a novel based on her life.
★ During Fumiko Hayashi's lifetime, major film studios like Toho, Shochiku, and Daiei vied to adapt her works. Mikio Naruse, praised by the French "Cahiers du Cinéma" as the fourth-greatest director in Japanese film history, adapted her novels six times. "Floating Clouds" is widely considered his greatest masterpiece, and it once left Yasujiro Ozu in awe.
★ After the film adaptation of the same name was released, it won first place in the 1955 "Kinema Junpo" annual film awards.
