The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature
Subtitle: The Subversion of Modernity (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies Series)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 15, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780415124577
Subjects: Cultural studies; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Japanese Literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; French; Japanese; Literary Criticism; Japan; Asian - General; Ethnic Studies - General; Social Science / Ethnic Studies
First sentence: In 1908 Natsume Soseki, perhaps the greatest of modern Japanese writers, published an eerie fantasy called Yume juya (trans. Ten Nights of Dream (1974) consisting of ten short visionary stories purporting to be dreams.