A novel by A. Golden «Memoirs of a Geisha» as stylization under non fiction literature

Authors

  • Олександр Галич National University of Water and Nature Management (Rivne)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31812/world_lit.v13i0.2365

Keywords:

stylization, memoirs, confession novel, non-fiction, quasi-documentary novel

Abstract

The article analyzes the novel by A. Golden "Memoirs of a Geisha", which is stylization under non fiction literature, which is characteristic of the literature of the globalized world. In fact, it is a work of fiction, a confession-telling novel of the main character of Saiuri-san who has made a difficult journey from a little girl who was sold by her old father and who has made a long way to become a geisha, through comprehension of traditional Japanese culture to emigration on the slope of the United States of America and a difficult upsurge into American reality, difficult and contradictory searches of her own happiness and becoming a mother.

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Author Biography

Олександр Галич, National University of Water and Nature Management (Rivne)

Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor, Professor of the Department of State Management, Document studies and Information Activity

Published

2019-06-30

How to Cite

Галич, О. (2019). A novel by A. Golden «Memoirs of a Geisha» as stylization under non fiction literature. Literatures of the World: Poetics, Mentality and Spirituality, 13, 14–23. https://doi.org/10.31812/world_lit.v13i0.2365

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Poetics of world literatures