I've only read Dazai and Mishima
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What japanese literature is worth checking out?
I've only read Dazai and Mishima
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It's a whole rabbit hole but just to get you started: Soseki, Akutagawa, Kobo Abe, Endo and Oe
Rabbit hole?
Soseki is among the best. Sanshiro is one of the great novels.
In the Miso Soup is good
Came here to post this. Also "Almost Transparent Blue"
Really? I felt it was trashy and just an excuse to rant about problems in Japan. Thought it didn't have a good payoff at the end at all that ruined the whole story.
problems for who exactly?
Masanori Morita
Bunkerdom.
Bunker-ness.
Extras.
I really liked The Face of Another
Does Japanese literature even have anything else like NLH?
Grotesque
Hideo Kojima is an anagram of video games!
Hahahahaha
What the frick is that!?
something that is no longer human
You could say that and mean it.
I on the other hand, am still human.
Say it with me!
most of Japanese books IQfy recommends have this underlying traditional vs modern Japan theme. Sometimes I get the feeling it took them 100 years to get over the Meiji restoration
You know how rightoids b***h about Western 'culture' being eroded with every passing year because of immigration etc? Well, imagine going from early 20th century Europe to 2050 in the span of about 20 years - that's the Meiji Restoration. It upended everything, so you can imagine just how intense the effect was on the average jap psyche.
>rightoids
>quoutes culture
why you like this?
Rien ne va plus!
As they say in French casinos.
Are there any Jap authors who can write women well? That is to say three dimensional well rounded humans with wants desires and flaws?
the konosuba writer
So you want writers who write women inaccurately?
banana
Non-white woman are pretty basic.
The Tale of Genji
The Pillow Book
The Tale of the Heike
Narrow Road to the Deep North
The Love Suicides at Amijima
Tales of Moonlight and Rain
Kokoro
Snow Country
The Makioka Sisters
The Woman in the Dunes
A Personal Matter
Silence
Kitchen
Battle Royale
Kafka on the Shore
The Night is Short, Walk on Girl
Kitchen sucks
Where's the book about the cat?
I was doing one per author and Kokoro is the more famous Natsume book.
Okay, but there must be something more written in the last 30 years worth reading? I mean they have a population of 120 million I think.
Both Murakami's
Musashi, a good adventure novel.
Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa
Naomi and Quicksand by Junichiro Tanazaki are good. Naomi is the better book of the two, but Quicksand's narration is very interesting.
Convenience Store Woman is a fun read if you want something more modern.
>Convenience Store Woman is a fun read if you want something more modern.
that book bored me to death, but living in Japan I've definitely met people like the main girl and the creepy dude who keeps talking about the stone age.
Check Kokoro by Soseki and The Makioka Sisters by Tanizaki.
Edogawa Ranpo. Well-known author for mystery and thriller, if you're interested in that.
japs have the weakest literary tradition of any developed country
South Korea, Poland, Canada, and Australia are all developed countries. Italy and the Nordics haven’t written very much in a few centuries. Plenty of Eastern European countries. This is not a true statement.