The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature
Subtitle: The Subversion of Modernity (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies Series)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: February 1, 1996
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780415124584
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.