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Contents Acknowledgments • xi Introduction • 1 1 Illness as Empowerment • 7 2 Modernism and Its Endings • 36 3 Things of Beauty • 72 4 The Subject of Change • 111 Translations Lemon • 143 Mire • 149 On the Road • 158 The Past • 163 After the Snow • 166 Landscapes of the Heart • 175 The Ascension of K, or K’s Drowning • 185 Winter Days • 191 Under the Cherry Trees • 206 Instrumental Illusions • 209 The Story of the Bamboo Pipe • 212 Blue Sky • 215 Winter Flies • 218 Certain Feelings on a Cliff Top • 229 Caresses • 241 Scroll of Darkness • 245 Mating • 250 The Carefree Patient • 257 Publication History • 273 Works Cited • 275 Index • 281 ...

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