The Triumph Of "Gorsh The Cellist"
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Miyazawa Kenji's children's story "Gorsh the Cellist" takes us on a
journey of discovery about the human condition and overwhelms us with a
tale of triumph. Each step is like a microcosm of the whole - as though
each step were a journey in itself. Kenji's stories are set against the
whole of the ....
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.... all lightens the mood of
an otherwise somber tale; rhythm that of his music and with it the
realization of the healing and soothing properties of music upon the soul;
fantasy- as a real event of the mind. Kenji writes of fantastical
wonderful things with a nonchalance that makes it almost believable
especially through the eyes of a child; and best of all: open-mindedness-
to believing in the best of all things in strangers and other creatures.
Every child, and thus, the child in us, loves to ....
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