Takako Takahashi

Takako Takahashi (Japanese高橋 たか子, Takahashi Takako, born March 2, 1932 in Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture as Takako Okamoto (冈本 和 子); † July 12, 2013 ) was a Japanese writer.

Life

Takahashi studied French literature at Kyoto University, where she graduated in 1954 with a thesis on Charles Baudelaire. During her studies she learned Kazumi Takahashi, whom she married six months after their university degree. While her husband was working as an assistant professor at Kyoto University, Takako lived in Kamakura, because she did not like the misogynistic Kyoto. She received her PhD with a thesis on François Mauriac. Her husband died in 1971 from cancer.

As a result, she began to write, 1975, she was baptized and converted to the Catholic Church. In this stage of life she lived temporarily in a Paris convent.

Your masterpiece Yūwakusha (诱惑 者, dt In temptation) is based on a story from the year 1933. A young woman was accused of assisted suicide in the Japanese student Kiyoko Matsumoto at the volcano Mihara. The work depicts the two women as they stand on the edge of the volcano and discuss the existence of God and the devil, until one of them the student encounters in the crater.

Prizes and awards

Works (selection)

Translations

  • Original: Marbre by André de Pieyre Mandiargues

Swell

  • The house as the scene of the narrative. Translated by Barbara Yoshida Krafft. In: Flowers in the Wind, essays and sketches of contemporary Japanese, Tübingen 1981, ISBN 3-886-39506-5
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