Japanese literature

Returning to Japan this summer.

This is the reading pile I've made to get in the mood.

Thinking of adding Kokoro and No Longer Human because of their sheer popularity.

Anybody got some good Japanese literature to recommend ?

The Tanaka Memorial

what kind of jap lit do you want? pre-modern jap lit and modern jap lit are completely different

Is Silence a good book or is it just another Christian meme?

I've seen the recent adaptation and thought it was alright. Is the book better?

the adaption was garbage compared to the book, it actually completely missed the point of the book and changed the ending to be the literal opposite

scorososo is a hack

Hard to say.

I guess, I'm simply looking for either something that will help me understand Japanese culture/history better or a really good book that happens to be a Japanese classic.

I heard the post-world war literature gets pretty bleak and nihilistic. Is there anything worth while from that era in your opinion?

I thought the ending took a lot of the ambiguity away from the story ,which was a real shame because it was pretty good up until that point.

wwwwwww

All Japanese lit is a meme

>tale of genji
>abridged

pleb