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A review by mbondlamberty
The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan by Christopher E.G. Benfey
2.0
The title deserves close reading because you do get more of the gilded age misfits than the Japanese eccentrics. And the opening of Old Japan is pretty much through the eye of those gilded age misfits which is not everyone's cup of tea.
The first section was an equal mix of Japanese eccentrics and Gilded Age misfits, but towards the end it becomes much more about the gilded age misfits and about the impact on future writers - Camus, Sartre, etc. and if you are into the genesis of ideas and stanzas really quite interesting. But if you are into Japanese history more this is not your book.
The first section was an equal mix of Japanese eccentrics and Gilded Age misfits, but towards the end it becomes much more about the gilded age misfits and about the impact on future writers - Camus, Sartre, etc. and if you are into the genesis of ideas and stanzas really quite interesting. But if you are into Japanese history more this is not your book.