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Naoya Shiga

Born

in Ishinomaki, Japan

February 20, 1883

Died

October 21, 1971

Genre

Literature & Fiction

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Naoya Shiga (志賀直哉) was a Japanese novelist and short story writer active during the Taishō and Showa periods of Japan.

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Average rating: 3.79 · 1,376 ratings · 207 reviews · 102 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Paper Door and Other Stories by Shiga Naoya by Naoya Shiga, Lane Dunlop (Translator), Donald Keene (Preface) 3.77 avg rating — 271 ratings — published 1987 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Dark Night's Passing by Naoya Shiga, Edwin McClelland (Translator) 3.73 avg rating — 237 ratings — published 1962 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reconciliation by Naoya Shiga, Ted Goossen (Translator) 3.53 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 1949 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reconciliation (Canons) by Naoya Shiga, Ted Goossen (Translator) 3.53 avg rating — 49 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	小僧の神様・城の崎にて [Kozō no kamisama ; Kinosaki ni te] by Naoya Shiga, 志賀直哉 3.68 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1917 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Han's Crime 3.82 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1913 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Un aprenent i el seu déu by Naoya Shiga (Translator), Kō Tazawa (translator), Joaquim Pijoan (translator) 3.29 avg rating — 35 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Popelavý měsíc by Naoya Shiga, Vlasta Winkelhöferová (Translator), Eva Bednářová (Illustrator) 4.16 avg rating — 25 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seibe y las calabazas 3.22 avg rating — 27 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La tortuga ciega y el madero flotante by Naoya Shiga, Makiko Sese (Translator), Daniel Villa (Translator) 2.88 avg rating — 16 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“It was beyond him to resign himself to some simple, cynical generality about life. Had he been able to do so, he would have been more comfortable. But because he could not, the heaviness in his heart persisted.”
― Naoya Shiga, A Dark Night's Passing

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“I remember that on the day before you left, I told you that I wanted to change my way of life, and you asked me why I didn’t resign from my company right away. This is no place for me to go into details, but I really do want another kind of life. But here, too, I seem incapable of doing anything. That I myself at times become tired of my own weakness is, I’m afraid, no consolation to you.”
― Naoya Shiga, A Dark Night's Passing

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“The first candle will, of course, burn out in time. But before this happens, the light from it will be passed on to another candle, and then to another, so that though the candles may change, the light will burn forever, like the light on a Buddhist altar. As the candles change, so will the way in which two people love each other; yet their love, like the light, need never go out.”
― Naoya Shiga, A Dark Night's Passing

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