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A review by pickle_burner
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Bashō
4.0
The post script of Narrow Road was like a punch in the stomach. You can see that current narratives like Drive My Car are very much from the same culture though separated by hundreds of years.
Reading this, I am reminded how little I know. There is a whole world of references and cultural assumptions in these narratives that I know nothing about. The footnotes help, but rather than bringing you the familiarity you long for, they just give you a sense of how much distance there is between you now and Japan then.
I could see Narrow Road being made into a movie, tho one that is less about the journey and more about Basho.
Reading this, I am reminded how little I know. There is a whole world of references and cultural assumptions in these narratives that I know nothing about. The footnotes help, but rather than bringing you the familiarity you long for, they just give you a sense of how much distance there is between you now and Japan then.
I could see Narrow Road being made into a movie, tho one that is less about the journey and more about Basho.