In Light of Shadows is the long-awaited second volume of short fiction by the Meiji-Taish? writer Izumi Ky?ka. It includes the famous novella Uta andon (A story by lantern light), the bizarre, antipsychological story "Mayu kakushi no rei" (A quiet obsession), and Ky?ka's hauntingly erotic final work, "Ruk?shins?" (The heartvine), as well as critical discussions of each of these three tales. Translator Charles Inouye places Ky?ka's "literature of...
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