Five Modern Japanese Novelists

Five Modern Japanese Novelists

Format:
E-Book (EPUB)
EAN:
9780231507493
Untertitel:
Englisch
Genre:
Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
Autor:
Donald Keene
Herausgeber:
Columbia University Press
Anzahl Seiten:
144
Erscheinungsdatum:
22.06.2005
ISBN:
978-0-231-50749-3

The New Yorker has called Donald Keene "America's preeminent scholar of Japanese literature." Now he presents a new book that serves as both a superb introduction to modern Japanese fiction and a memoir of his own lifelong love affair with Japanese literature and culture. Five Modern Japanese Novelistsprofiles five prominent writers whom Donald Keene knew personally: Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, Kawabata Yasunari, Mishima Yukio, Abe Kobo, and Shiba Ryotaro. Keene masterfully blends vignettes describing his personal encounters with these famous men with autobiographical observations and his trademark learned literary and cultural analysis.

Keene opens with a confession: before arriving in Japan in 1953, despite having taught Japanese for several years at Cambridge, he knew the name of only one living Japanese writer: Tanizaki. Keene's training in classical Japanese literature and fluency in the language proved marvelous preparation, though, for the journey of literary discovery that began with that first trip to Japan, as he came into contact, sometimes quite fortuitously, with the genius of a generation. It is a journey that will fascinate experts and newcomers alike

Autorentext
Donald Keene

Inhalt
Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886-1965)
Kawabata Yasunari (1899-1972)
Mishima Yukio (1925-1970)
Abe Kobo (1924-1993)
Shiba Ryotaro (1923-1996)
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