"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 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.
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
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