Five Modern Japanese Novelists
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: January 15, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780231126106
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Biography / Autobiography; Japanese; Literary Criticism; ASIA; Asian - General; Ethnic Cultures - General; Literary; Literary Criticism & Collections / Asian; 20th century; Authors, Japanese; History and criticism; Japanese fiction
First sentence: Before arriving in Japan in 1953 I knew the name of only one living Japanese novelist, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro.
Description: "Five Modern Japanese Novelists profiles 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."--BOOK JACKET.