Summary
Max Dauthendey: 8 scenes on Lake Biva
The book 8 scenes on Lake Biva is Max Dauthendey's best-known work, the creation of which was prompted by the writer's stay in Japan, and his inspiration was a well-known series of paintings of the natural beauty of the landscape around Lake Biva, in the then Japanese province of Ōmi, east of Kyoto. Dauthendey's stories provide us with an exotic and fairy-tale refuge from the harsh and gloomy reality. It is a world of mermaids, samurai, ghosts and apparitions, fateful coincidences and the fulfillment of inevitable prophecies, a story of love, loyalty, immortality and honor.
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