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The New Yorker has called Donald Keene Americas preeminent scholar ofJapanese literature. Now he presents a new book that serves as both a superbintroduction to modern Japanese fiction and a memoir of his own lifelong loveaffair with Japanese literature and culture. Five Modern JapaneseNovelistsprofiles five prominent writers whom Donald Keene knew personallyTanizaki Junichiro Kawabata Yasunari Mishima Yukio Abe Kobo and ShibaRyotaro. Keene masterfully blends vignettes describing his personalencounters with these famous men with autobiographical observations and histrademark learned literary and cultural analysis.Keene opens with a confession before arriving in Japan in 1953 despite havingtaught Japanese for several years at Cambridge he knew the name of only oneliving Japanese writer Tanizaki. Keenes training in classical Japaneseliterature and fluency in the language proved marvelous preparation thoughfor the journey of literary discovery that began with that first trip to Japanas he came into contact sometimes quite fortuitously with the genius of ageneration. It is a journey that will fascinate experts and newcomers alike «
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