Redpill me on jap literature

Redpill me on jap literature

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The Japanese language is perfect for poetry and worthless for prose. Don't bother reading anything in translation.

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Jap lit is a pretty cool guy. Eh, sparse and poetic and doesn't afraid of anything, except Oe.

The prose sometimes turns out atrociously.
But their themes are interesting.
Which makes me put up with the prose.
But fuck Haruki Murakami.

It's literally all trash

Regarding 20th century Japanese literature, most of what's popular on this board is thematically similar to a lot of Western modernist literature. Heavy focus on conception of the "self" almost entirely due to the influence of a liberal Western individualism which previously was irrelevant in Japanese thought. This monistic self (individual as separate from other individuals) logically leads to themes like alienation, external/internal dichotomies which is stuff you see pretty often in Western modernist literature. The big difference is (obviously) the nationality and (a bit less obviously) the style. Consider the watakushi-shosetsu and zuihitsu as Japanese literary genres for examples of this stylistic departure from Western literature - you're not gonna find here much of the formalist experimentation you expect out of Western modernists like Joyce or Woolf.

If you want to read stuff that's not as popular on this board, try Kawabata. I think he's distinct from the sort of writing I described.

Kawabata is immensely popular, he's one of the most often recommended Japanese writers in the west and Veeky Forums