Amazing work by sociologist Fei Xiaotong, who attempts to create a sociology of and from Chinese society, instead of slavishly analyzing Chinese society through a Western theoretical lens. I wonder if there is a Korean […]
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Japanese Writers in English: Yoko Tawada’s transnational “strangeness” and her prank at the Vancouver Writer’s Fest
View this post on Instagram Wir freuen uns, dass Yoko Tawada auf der Eröffnungsveranstaltung “Weltklang – Nacht der Poesie” des 19. poesiefestival berlin lesen wird. Yoko Tawada (geb. 1960 in Tokyo) lebt seit 1982 in […]
Reading Japanese Writers in English: What Can Come of Grief? As seen through Banana Yoshimoto`s 1994 novel, Amrita.
“As people, we narrowly get by with our lives each day, energy from our soft, delicate actions appearing like cherry blossoms, only once, and once for a short while. Eventually, petals fall to the ground.” […]
Inherited Experience: Murakami’s ‘Abandoning a Cat: What I Talk About When I Talk About My Father’
父語りから透ける残虐な偶然 村上春樹「猫を棄てる」 https://t.co/CKQS9s99Vz — 朝日新聞(asahi shimbun) (@asahi) 2019年6月6日 Haruki Murakami’s recent essay, Neko o suteru: Chichioya ni tsuite kataru tokini boku no kataru koto” (Abandoning A Cat: What I Talk About When I Talk About My […]
Almost Transparent Blue by Ryu Murakami
What an imagination—and if not wrested out from the imagination to be put on a blank page, what a life! Ryu Murakami’s Almost Transparent Blue shook me violently, coming from Kawabata as I was. The novel […]
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Basho
I was reading this six months ago when I was stuck in Paris for some weeks (thought I lost my passport). What an epic journey it must have been for Basho, the renowned Japanese poet, […]
Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima | Kevin Jae’s book review
On the back cover of the novel, a reviewer compares Mishima with Andre Gide, and this novel does remind me of Gide’s work, as it is profoundly introspective, taking the readers through an uncertain search […]
The Old Capital by Yasunari Kawabata
One needs to be a good listener to read Kawabata properly to hear what is not written. There were times where after a reading session, I felt the quality of my surroundings change, while at […]
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima | Japan book reviews
A strange story that could not have been written by anyone else other than Mishima. A group of five teenagers raised in solidly middle class families form a gang joined by a sense of nihilistic discontent […]
The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
A simple love story between two virginal souls on an island not touched by the corrupting influences of modern life and ideas. Their experience of love is not written over and overladen with ideas of […]
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