The Moon over the Mountain
山月記
中島敦 · Japanese
A proud Tang-dynasty poet who forsook officialdom for literary greatness wakes one night transformed into a tiger.
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A proud Tang-dynasty poet who forsook officialdom for literary greatness wakes one night transformed into a tiger. Nakajima Atsushi's haunting meditation on ambition, shame, and the beast within the self.
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中島敦
Nakajima Atsushi (1909-1942) was a Japanese novelist who reworked Chinese classical sources into spare modern fiction. The Moon over the Mountain and The Expert appeared in the last year of his life. He died of asthma at thirty-three, months after his first work was published.
The Moon over the Mountain
山月記
中島敦 · Japanese
A proud Tang-dynasty poet who forsook officialdom for literary greatness wakes one night transformed into a tiger.
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隴西の李徴は博学才穎、天宝の末年、若くして名を虎榜に連ね、ついで江南尉に補せられたが、性、狷介、自ら恃むところ頗る厚く、賤吏に甘んずるを潔しとしなかった。いくばくもなく官を退いた後は、故山、略に帰臥し、人と交を絶って、ひたすら詩作に耽った。下吏となって長く膝を俗悪な大官の前に屈するよりは、詩家としての名を死後百年に遺そうとしたのである。しかし、文名は容易に揚らず、生活は日を逐うて苦しくなる。李徴は漸く焦躁に駆られて来た。この頃からその容貌も峭刻となり、肉落ち骨秀で、眼光のみ徒らに炯々として、曾て進士に登第した頃の豊頬の美少年の俤は、何処に求めようもない。数年の後、貧窮に堪えず、妻子の衣食のために遂に節を屈して、再び東へ赴き、一地方官吏の職を奉ずることになった。一方、これは、己の詩業に半ば絶望したためでもある。曾ての同輩は既に遥か高位に進み、彼が昔、鈍物として歯牙にもかけなかったその連中の下命を拝さねばならぬことが、往年の儁才李徴の自尊心を如何に傷けたかは、想像に難くない。彼は怏々として楽しまず、狂悖の性は愈々抑え難くなった。一年の後、公用で旅に出、汝水のほとりに宿った時、遂に発狂した。
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A proud Tang-dynasty poet who forsook officialdom for literary greatness wakes one night transformed into a tiger. Nakajima Atsushi's haunting meditation on ambition, shame, and the beast within the self.
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中島敦
Nakajima Atsushi (1909-1942) was a Japanese novelist who reworked Chinese classical sources into spare modern fiction. The Moon over the Mountain and The Expert appeared in the last year of his life. He died of asthma at thirty-three, months after his first work was published.
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