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George T. Sipos

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George T. Sipos is a Romanian American scholar of Japanese literature and culture, writer and literary translator from Japanese into Romanian and English. He published six volumes of translations from the works of modern Japanese writers Osamu Dazai, Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima, and Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. His short stories were published in various Romanian and European literary magazines and ezines, and his poems in Italian and Romanian bilingual anthologies.
Sipos holds a PhD in Japanese literature, culture and society from The University of Chicago. His research focuses on various aspects of modernity in Japan and Europe. He published articles and contributed chapters to books on Japanese literature and co-edited the volumes Tenko: Cu ...more

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	O mie de cocori by Yasunari Kawabata, George T. Sipos (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.69 avg rating — 16,740 ratings — published 1952 — 8 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
	Viaţa unui prost by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, George T. Sipos (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.66 avg rating — 12,523 ratings — published 1927 — 30 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
	Soare şi oţel by Yukio Mishima, George T. Sipos (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.82 avg rating — 10,194 ratings — published 1968 — 5 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
	Sunetul muntelui by Yasunari Kawabata, George T. Sipos (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.84 avg rating — 10,023 ratings — published 1954 — 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
	Ciuleandra by Liviu Rebreanu, Daniele Serra (Illustrator), George T. Sipos (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.18 avg rating — 5,212 ratings — published 1927	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
	Călătorie către curcubeu by Yasunari Kawabata, George T. Sipos (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.47 avg rating — 1,669 ratings — published 1951 — 11 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
	Decădere umană by Osamu Dazai, George T. Sipos (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.87 avg rating — 113 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
	In the Shadow of the Apocalypse by Dinu Pillat, James Christian Brown (Translator), George T. Sipos (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.85 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2010 — 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
	Tenkō Cultures of Political Conversion in Transwar Japan by Irena Hayter (Editor), George T. Sipos (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mark Williams (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 4 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 Vague Anxiety: Modern Japanese Literature and Its Crises 0.00 avg rating — 0 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

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“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
― Plato, The Republic

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“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
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