Article: The Wild Goose.

This new translation of Mori Ogai's novel The Wild Goose (1911-13) is a most welcome addition to the growing collection of Japanese fiction in English. As one of very few Japanese works now available in two translations, it illustrates the difference a good translation can make.

Though he spent most of his life as a military doctor, Mori Ogai is one of Japan's best modern novelists. The biographical facts of his love affair with a German woman he met while studying military hygiene in Germany add poignancy to this nineteenth-century love story, which describes a relationship made impossible by differences between social classes. Unlike many Japanese naturalist ...

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