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Modern Japanese literature : an anthology

1960
Book
Modern Japanese Literature is Donald Keene's critically acclaimed companion volume to his landmark Anthology of Japanese Literature. Now considered the standard canon of modern Japanese writing translated into English, Modern Japanese Literature includes concise introductions to the writers, as well as a historical introduction by Professor Keene. Includes: "Growing Up" by Ichiyo, a lyrical story of pre-adolescence in the 90s; Natsume's story of "Botchan," an ill-starred and ineffectual Huck Finn; Nagai's "The Sumida River"; Kokomitsu's Kafkaesque "Time"; Kawabata's "The Mole"; "Firefly Hunt"; a glimpse into Tanizaki's masterpiece "Thin Snow"; and the postwar work of such writers as Dazai and Mishima.
Main title:
Modern Japanese literature : an anthology / compiled and edited by Donald Keene.
Edition:
1st Evergreen ed.
Imprint:
New York : Grove Weidenfeld, 1960.
Collation:
440 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p.[439]-440)
ISBN:
97808021509500802150950
Dewey class:
895.60805895.608
Language:
EnglishJapanese
BRN:
68748
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