In the moonless darkness

This collection includes the works of Matsuo Basyo, capable of helping the reader to make a clear and clear idea of ​​the style of a person who actually personally created a genre who was to become (and forever remain) a kind of symbol of Japanese poetry - Haiku. Before him, it was a purely folk, comic, juicy-collapsible poetic genre-and which he turned into a sparkling-trotted, perfectly clear poetic form in which the landscape and philosophical lyrics merge into something one-so that the pictures of nature become a kind of illustration For philosophical thought.
Basyo poetry is simple and at the same time complex, full of subtle associations, graceful images and almost intuitive to understand the hints, harmonious and filled with a purely buddhist depth of thought-in a word, it belongs to the greatest literary masterpieces of humanity , not subject to time