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(★)(1.Tanizaki Jun-ichiro [1886-1965], 2.Kawabata Yasunari [1899-1972], 3.Mishima Yukio [1925-1970], 4.Abe Kobo [1924-1993], 5.Shiba Ryotaro [1923-1996] →The New Yorker has called Donald Keene ´America´s preeminent scholar of Japanese literature.´ Now he presents a new book that is both a superb introduction to modern Japanese fiction and a memoir of his own lifelong love affair with Japanese literature and culture. ´Five Modern Japanese Novelists´ profiles five prominent writers whom Donald Keene knew personally : Tanizaki Jun-ichiro, Kawabata Yasunari, Mishima Yukio, Abe Kobo, and Shiba Ryotaro. Keene masterfully blends vignettes describing his personal encounters with these famous men with autobiographical observations and his trademark learned literary and cultural analysis. Keene opens with a confession : before arriving in Japan in 1953, despite having taught Japanese for several years at Cambridge, he knew the name of only one living Japanese writer : Tanizaki. Keene´s training in classical Japanese literature and fluency in the language proved marvelous preparation, though, for the journey of literary discovery that began with that first trip to Japan, as he came into contact, sometimes quite fortuitously, with the genius of a generation. It is a journey that will fascinate experts and newcomers alike. 2.Donald Keene, hailed in the New York Times Book Review as ´the century´s leading expert on Japanese literature, as well as its most indefatigable translator,´ is Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University. He is the author, editor, or translator of more than thirty books of criticism and works of literature, including Twelve Plays of the No Theater, Major Plays of Chikamatsu, The Pleasures of Japanese Literature, Modern Japanese Diaries, Essays in Idleness, Travelers of a Hundred Ages, a four-volume history of Japanese literature -´Seeds in the Heart´,´World Within Walls´, and the two-volume ´Dawn to the West´- and, most recently, the critically acclaimed ´Emperor of Japan : Meiji and His World [all published by Columbia]´. Keene has received numerous awards both in the West and in Japan, including the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandorf Award.) |
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