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Notes at the head of the bed

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Sad and funny scenes of court life. Great secular anecdotes (sometimes quite poisonous). Pictures of nature. Philosophical reflections. Transparent, crystal language. A sharp and incisive mind of the narrator. Uncommon observation ... "Notes at the Headboard", recognized during the author's lifetime as an unqualified masterpiece and became a kind of "bestseller" (of course, in a very narrow court circle, but the other in Japan in the Heian era was not - total illiteracy was not only the people, but also the emerging samurai nobility), laid the foundation for a unique literary genre "zuihitsu", more or less successfully translated as "essay", but exactly essay is not. In reality, zuihitsu are simply unconstrained writings about everything and nothing. "Pure art" in a straightforwardly distilled form, "beauty for beauty's sake", not trying to escape behind the vicissitudes of the plot and appreciated for what, in fact, and is - the absolute perfection of style, which prose Sei-Shonagon stands out even against the background of the richest galaxy of talented stylists of medieval Japanese literature.
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