Poor Man's Elegy / Blue Socks Series · Japan Volume

Author: Gao Huiqin
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Publish Date: 1996-12-01
Features: This series systematically introduces foreign female writers and their achievements in women's literature, showcasing the overall lineup of female writers of this century. Its most distinctive feature is that all the authors are female: female writers writing for female readers, translated into Chinese by female translators, and compiled by female scholars, making it a purely female literary series. It is divided into ten volumes: collections of female literary works from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, France, Japan, Russia, Eastern Europe, Southern Europe and Latin America, and the Arab world. Each volume is approximately 300,000 words, with a total word count exceeding 3 million. "Blue Socks" is a term for the female geniuses who established literary salons in the 18th century, and this series is named after it, embodying the meaning of female writers' "self-reliance, self-respect, and self-strengthening." This book is a selected collection of Japanese female literary works, featuring the representative works of fifteen renowned Japanese female writers since the 19th century.