Brave and Cowardly Notes

Akinari Ueda is primarily known for the collection of fantastic novellas "Moon in the Mist", however, the lifestyle of the writer, his personality and views on the world are better revealed in the collection of diverse notes "Brave and Cowardly Notes".

Written just a year before the author's death, "Notes" represent a kind of conclusion of Ueda's entire life, a tale of everything that ever struck his imagination or occupied his thoughts: from ancient Japanese history and poetry to calligraphy, tea ceremonies, and botany.

On the pages of the book, the writer emerges as a bearer of sharp and caustic wit, a skeptic with a poetic soul, who does not recognize authorities but possesses an inexhaustible interest in life and the world around. For the first time in Russian!