Шанхай

Ëkomit͡su Riiti (1898-1947) ne tak khorosho izvesten v Rossii, kak ego imenitye sovremenniki - Akutagava Ri͡unoskė, Dzi͡unʺitiro Tanidzaki, I͡Asunari Kavabata. A mezhdu tem v 20-30-e gg. KhKh v. on schitalsi͡a v I͡Aponii prozaikom nomer odin, "korolem sovremennogo romana", a nekotorye sovremenniki dazhe imenovali ego literaturnym bozhestvom. Deĭstvie ego samogo znamenitogo romana "Shankhaĭ" proiskhodit v kitaĭskom Shankhae, v preddverii Revoli͡ut͡sii 1925-1927 gg. V to opasnoe vremi͡a Shankhaĭ ocharovyval i priti͡agival k sebe avanti͡uristov so vsekh kont͡sov zemli - i͡apont͡sev, anglichan, amerikant͡sev, frant͡suzov, indiĭt͡sev, russkikh monarkhistov, bezhavshikh iz Rossii. Sredi personazheĭ romana - kommunisty i marksisty, kosmopolity i patrioty, bandity, buntovshchiki i karateli. V kipi͡ashchem kotle ėtogo vostochnogo Vavilona torgui͡ut i grabi͡at, pirui͡ut i golodai͡ut, li͡ubi͡at i ubivai͡ut. Zdesʹ mozhet sluchitsi͡a vse, chto ugodno - i sluchaetsi͡a

Yokomitsu Riichi (1898-1947) is not as well known in Russia as his famous contemporaries — Akutagawa Ryunoske, Junichiro Tanizaki, Yasunari Kawabata. Meanwhile, in the 20-30s of the twentieth century. He was considered the number one novelist in Japan, the "king of the modern novel," and some contemporaries even called him a literary deity. His most famous novel Shanghai is set in Shanghai, China, on the eve of the Revolution of 1925-1927. At that dangerous time, Shanghai charmed and attracted adventurers from all over the world — Japanese, British, Americans, French, Indians, Russian monarchists who fled Russia. Among the characters of the novel are communists and Marxists, cosmopolitans and patriots, bandits, rebels and punishers. In the boiling cauldron of this eastern Babylon, people trade and rob, feast and starve, love and kill. Anything can happen here — and it happens