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(★)(The modern Japanese novel has a very short history, reaching its maturity only in the first decade of the twentieth century. It came into being --as so much else in modern Japan-- as a result of Western influence. Natsume Sooseki [1867-1916] and Shimazaki Tooson [1872-1943] were two outstanding Japanese writers of this formative period. Through them, among other contemporaries, the realistic novel came to be established as a major literary form in Japan. Both novelists were men of originality, yet both retained their Japanese identity throughout their writing careers while inheriting very little from their native writing tradition. They wrote not as imitators of Western models but as modern Japanese who found the realistic novel the best means of expressing themselves.／ Soseki was the more imaginative storyteller of the two, bringing to the Japanese novel a hitherto unknown daring. Toson contributed just as much. More than any other writer of his time, he was a nature-loving essayist who gave prominence to the ´naturalist´ school of writers. Edwin McClellan´s essays on these two pioneering fiction writers are unique contributions to our understanding of the development of the modern Japanese novel.／ ◆Edwin McClellan, a leading scholar and translator of Japanese literature, is Sterling Professor [Emeritus] of Japanese Literature at Yale University. Born in Kobe, Japan, in 1925, he holds an MA from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago where he taught from 1957 until his appointment at Yale in 1972. McClellan is noted for his translations of major Japanese works, including the novels ´Kokoro´ and ´Grass on the Wayside´ by Natsume Soseki. In 1994, he became only the fourth foreign national to win the Kikuchi Kan Prize, one of the highest honors recognizing contributions to Japanese culture, and in 1998, the Japanese government awarded him its Order of the Rising Sun.／ ▼CONTENTS／ ■SOOSEKI／ ●I am a Cat ●Little Master ●Pillow of Grass ●Autumn Wind ●Sanshiro ●And Then-- ●The Gate ●The Wanderer ●The Heart ●Grass on the Wayside／ ■TOOSON／ ●Broken Commandment ●Spring ●The House ●A New Life ●Before the Dawn／) |
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