Fumiko Enchi

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born

October 02, 1905 in Tokyo, Japan

died

November 12, 1986

genre

Literature & Fiction, Women & Gender Studies

influences

Junichiro Tanizaki, Wilde, Poe, Kyoka Izumi, Kafu Nagai, Ryunosuke Aku ...more

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Fumiko Enchi (円地文子 Enchi Fumiko, maiden name: Fumi Ueda) was was a playwright and novelist; one of the most prominent Japanese writers in Showa period.

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Average rating: 3.73 · 667 ratings · 60 reviews · 11 distinct works

	Masks 3.64 avg rating — 322 ratings — published 1958 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi, John Bester (Translator) 3.80 avg rating — 318 ratings — published 1971 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Tale of False Fortunes by Fumiko Enchi, Roger K. Thomas (Translator) 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Onnazaka. Il sentiero nell'ombra 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1992	My rating:
	Maschere Di Donna 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	Namamiko Monogatari ;Genji Monogatari Shiken 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2004	My rating:
	Kaguyahime 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Genji Monogatari 4 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1980	My rating:
	Masks by Fumiko Enchi, Juliet Winters Carpenter (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1984	My rating:
	Genji Monogatari 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2001	My rating:

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Quotes by Fumiko Enchi

“A woman's love is quick to turn into a passion for revenge--an obsession that becomes an endless river of blood, flowing on from generation to generation.”
― Fumiko Enchi, Masks

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“Even the sadistic misogyny of Buddha and Christ was nothing but an attempt to gain the better of a vastly superior opponent.”
― Fumiko Enchi, Masks

6 people liked it

“Happiness--a small-scale, endearing, harmonious happiness--surely dwelt here beneath the low-powered lamps in the tiny rooms of these houses. A small-scale happiness and a modest harmony: let a man cry out, let him rage, let him howl with grief with all the power of which he was capable, what more than these could he ever hope to gain in this life?”
― Fumiko Enchi, The Waiting Years

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