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Revisits such luminaries as Kawabata, Tanizaki, and the detective novelist Edogawa Ranpo. This title includes Funabashi Seiichi's Diving, Hagiwara Sukataro's Town of Cats, Ito Sei's Streets of Fiendish Ghosts, and Kawabata's film scenario Page of Madness.

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Be prepared to rethink the nature of modern Japanese literature; or better still, simply read these often wondrous tales, some tall, some short, one after the other, and enjoy a remarkable, liberating moment in Japanese literary history. - J. Thomas Rimer, professor emeritus of Japanese literature, University of Pittsburgh ""This is a tour de force that gives readers a full and vivid picture of Japanese literature and its cultural milieu between 1913 and 1938, with smoothly rendered translations of influential works and a thought-provoking critique of how trends and movements during this period have been 'constructed' and 'reinvented' ever since. The book will also serve as an important reference for those studying twentieth-century Japanese literature."" - Steve Rabson, professor emeritus of Japanese, Brown University

Modanizumu Modernist Fiction from Japan 19131938

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      Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
      Publication Date: 1/30/2008 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780824832421, 978-0824832421
      ISBN10: 0824832426

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Revisits such luminaries as Kawabata, Tanizaki, and the detective novelist Edogawa Ranpo. This title includes Funabashi Seiichi's Diving, Hagiwara Sukataro's Town of Cats, Ito Sei's Streets of Fiendish Ghosts, and Kawabata's film scenario Page of Madness.

      Trade Review
      Be prepared to rethink the nature of modern Japanese literature; or better still, simply read these often wondrous tales, some tall, some short, one after the other, and enjoy a remarkable, liberating moment in Japanese literary history. - J. Thomas Rimer, professor emeritus of Japanese literature, University of Pittsburgh ""This is a tour de force that gives readers a full and vivid picture of Japanese literature and its cultural milieu between 1913 and 1938, with smoothly rendered translations of influential works and a thought-provoking critique of how trends and movements during this period have been 'constructed' and 'reinvented' ever since. The book will also serve as an important reference for those studying twentieth-century Japanese literature."" - Steve Rabson, professor emeritus of Japanese, Brown University

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