Five modern Japanese novelists /
Donald Keene
Five modern Japanese novelists / Donald Keene - New YorkL: Columbia University Press, c2005 - ix, 113 pages : illustrations ; 23cm
Tanizaki Junʾichirō (1886-1965)
Kawabata Yasunari (1899-1972)
Mishima Yukio (1925-1970)
Abe Kōbō (1924-1993)
Shiba Ryōtarō (1923-1996)
"Donald Keene offers a book that is both an introduction to modern Japanese fiction and a memoir of his own lifelong interest in Japanese literature and culture. Five Modern Japanese Novelists offers profiles of prominent writers whom Donald Keene knew personally: Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, Kawabata Yasunari, Mishima Yukio, Abe Kobo, and Shiba Ryotaro. Keene blends vignettes describing encounters with these famous men, autobiographical observations, and insightful, elegant literary and cultural analysis."--BOOK JACKET
9780231126113
Authors, Japanese 20th century
Criticism, interpretation, etc ps
REF 895.634409 K37
Five modern Japanese novelists / Donald Keene - New YorkL: Columbia University Press, c2005 - ix, 113 pages : illustrations ; 23cm
Tanizaki Junʾichirō (1886-1965)
Kawabata Yasunari (1899-1972)
Mishima Yukio (1925-1970)
Abe Kōbō (1924-1993)
Shiba Ryōtarō (1923-1996)
"Donald Keene offers a book that is both an introduction to modern Japanese fiction and a memoir of his own lifelong interest in Japanese literature and culture. Five Modern Japanese Novelists offers profiles of prominent writers whom Donald Keene knew personally: Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, Kawabata Yasunari, Mishima Yukio, Abe Kobo, and Shiba Ryotaro. Keene blends vignettes describing encounters with these famous men, autobiographical observations, and insightful, elegant literary and cultural analysis."--BOOK JACKET
9780231126113
Authors, Japanese 20th century
Criticism, interpretation, etc ps
REF 895.634409 K37