Anyone got recommendations for great Japanese literature?
Anyone got recommendations for great Japanese literature?
I haven't read much of it. "the river with no bridge"(1900) by sue sumii was an enjoyable read if you're into historical fiction, but it ended with a communist rant.
C'mon
Osamu dazai, no longer human
The wiki has some good shit
Kokoro, Botchan, and Sanshiro by Soseki are all really good.
Osamu Dazai, Yukio Mishima
There are too many untranslated Japanese books and that irritates me.
all the ones on the top 100 are really good
Remote control, Isaka Koutaro
Haruki Murakami
>not great
>japanese in only the most superficial sense
>barely literature
Kobe Abe - Secret Rendezvous
Haruki Murakami - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles
Mishima - The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Kawabata - Snow Country
should give a pretty good overview of it's various styles
shit i forgot No Longer Human, cracker of a novel
also fuck the Murakami hate on this board, he's second only to Kawabata in my estimation desu senpai
He has good books, retard
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
go back to r/books newfriend
Read Genji no Monogatari.
Supposedly one of the first works of fiction.
stop regurgitating wikipedia platitudes
"i am a cat" by natsume sÅseki
he has a couple of ok books and a lot of lesser versions of those ok books
It says it on the back of my book you idiot.
How about you stop projecting?
Learn Japanese then.
Also when will other Eastern countries get attention like Japan? Why the lack of interest in Malay, Korean, Thai etc. literature? Japan is fine but the interest is over the top.
It is one of the first "novels", certainly not one of the first works of fiction.