Exploring Japanese Literature: Reading Mishima, Tanizaki And Kawabata In The Original
Exploring Japanese Literature: Reading Mishima, Tanizaki And Kawabata In The Original Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima and Junichiro Tanizaki are all giants of world literature. Ixploring Japanese…
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Exploring Japanese Literature: Reading Mishima, Tanizaki And Kawabata In The Original
Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima and Junichiro Tanizaki are all giants of world literature. Ixploring Japanese Literature enables them to do just that. It stands to reason that students of Japanese would long to read them in their original language.
Featuring one each of these writers most characteristic stories - plus linguistic support in the form of a built-in dictionary - the book picks up where the authors previous bestselling text, Breaking into Japanese Literature, left off.The poignancy of romance between a wealthy Tokyoite and a provincial geisha in Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country; the ecstatic frenzy of a couple committing ritual suicide in Mishima's Patriotism; the amoral antics of a playboy aesthete trying to fire up his flagging zest for life in Tanizaki's The Secret-Exploring Japanese Literature is a reader's entree into the uniquely rich and exotic