A Wise Man's Joke

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  • 君子の戯言
  • 君子の戯言--『南総里見八犬伝』の発端
  • クンシ ノ タワゴト ナンソウ サトミ ハッケンデン ノ ホッタン
  • —『南総里見八犬伝』の発端—

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<p>When you closely read Nansô-satomi-hakken-den, an epic novel by Kyokutei-Bakin, you may soon find how exquisitely the text is constructed. Indeed, with a clever combination of traditional and new themes, the author so naturally puts his own philosophy into the story that it never reads didactically like most philosophical novels. Here I will argue that such immanent reading is indispensable for the acceptance of his work as a novel proper.</p>

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