Электронная книга: Alex Kerr «No One Listened: Two children caught in a tragedy with no one else to trust except for each other»
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Alex Kerr
Alex Kerr (born 1952) is an American
Originally from the Bethesda area in unincorporated Montgomery County,
An expert on Japanese culture and art, Kerr studied Japanese Studies at
He is perhaps most well known for his book "Lost Japan" (1994), which describes what he saw as the sorry modern state of the country in which he has spent more than 35 years of his life. "Lost Japan" was actually originally written and published in Japanese, as "Utsukushiki Nihon no Zanzō" (美しき日本の残像, "Last Glimpse of Beautiful Japan"). He was the first foreigner to be awarded the
His most recent work is "Dogs and Demons" (2002), which addresses much of the same issues of degradation and loss of native culture in the wake of modernization and Westernization.
In the early 1970s, Kerr purchased a decomposing, abandoned, two-hundred-year-old Japanese house in the
Kerr currently has several residences. He lives in
English-language Works
*"Lost Japan" (1994) ISBN 0-86442-370-5
*"Dogs and Demons: The Fall of Modern Japan" (2002) ISBN 0-14-101000-2
*"Living in Japan" (2006) ISBN 3-8228-4594-9
External links
* http://www.alex-kerr.com/
* http://www.chiiori.org/
* http://kyotojournal.org/kjselections/kerr.jpg
Источник: Alex Kerr
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