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Ihara Saikaku is a famous Japanese writer in 1600s. He wrote many modern novels including, Life of an Amorous Man and The Eternal Storehouse of Japan . Safe from Christianism through centuries, Japan has old traditions of homosexual relationships. So Saikaku also wrote on homosexual relationships which were common among samurais and monks in this book.

James Baldwin's 2 novels, Go Tell It on the Mountain and Giovanni's room were translated in Korean in 1980's. While searching for "Giovanni's room" in local libraries, I came to know the fact. After some more research I could purchase the book from one used books store(which was several months ago, maybe more than a year ago).

The title "Notes of a desolate man" was changed to Korean title meaning "The portrait of a gay man". The subpublisher knows how to sell a book, I suppose. It was almost 9 years ago since I read this novel. So I didn't remember anything about the story. I came across this book while moving my books here and there.