Jiro, the younger son of a Tokyo family, follows his scholar brother Ichiro through a summer of Osaka visits, hospital sickrooms and a brooding trip to Wakayama. Ichiro, tormented by the conviction that he can never truly know his wife's mind, drifts toward breakdown, and his friend H reports on him in a long letter.
Books mentioned in The Wayfarer (1)
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri: “According to my brother, Paolo was the younger brother of Francesca's husband, and the two loved each other in secret until the husband found them out and killed them. It was a sad story, written somewhere in Dante's Divine Comedy, he said. [auto-translated]”