Mori Ogai's Greatest Works

This collection brings together three celebrated works by Mori Ōgai, one of the pioneering figures of modern Japanese literature. In The Dancing Girl, a young Japanese man studying in Germany is torn between love and the expectations placed upon him. The Wild Geese follows a woman trapped by circumstance whose hopes for a different life become intertwined with a passing student, while the provocative Vita Sexualis traces a man’s memories of growing up and his developing understanding of sexuality. Together, the three works explore desire, duty, loneliness and personal freedom against the backdrop of a rapidly modernising Japan.